xkcd Hover Text - Chrome Extension
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― ⚠ Google Chrome may tell you to remove this and other “Manifest V2” extensions as part of their attempt to force adoption of “Manifest V3”. This extension remains fully supported, but will remain on MV2 as long as possible to retain support for older Chromebooks and oppose other issues with MV3 highlighted by the EFF – https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation. ―
Takes the hover text of xkcd comics and displays it above or below the image.
Update history: 2.0.1 • Fixed extension not working on HTTPS site 2.0 • Clean-up under-the-hood • Options page redesign • Options now sync between computers 1.6 • Updated to work with the latest version of xkcd
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xkcd Hover Text requires very minimum permissions.
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xkcd Hover Text has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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