Furball

Name: Furball
Rating: 4 (17 reviews)
Author: Ian Morrill

The ultimate Scratch experience.

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Furball is the ultimate enhancement for Scratch users, providing a transformed Scratch experience right within your browser. It brings back classic features like the Discuss and Wiki buttons to the navbar, giving you easy access to community resources only if you want them. Additionally, Furball makes it simple for anyone to install experimental project extensions through the convenient Furball project extension.

Explore new and improved navigation bars everywhere, including the Wiki, making browsing seamless and stylish. The extension enhances Scratch's visual appeal with refined styles, offering a refreshing look compared to the plain original interface. With Flash being phased out, Furball also allows effortless switching between the legacy Adobe Flash Scratch player and the advanced HTML5 Phosphorus player, ensuring Scratch projects run smoothly and beautifully. Enjoy Scratch like never before with Furball!

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Version:

1.8 Last updated: 2018-06-20

Creation date:

2018-06-20

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Permissions:

storage
alarms
notifications

Size:

64.73K

Email:

ia*****@gmail.com

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

15 hours ago

Ranking

# 36,416 ▲ 1,162

Other rankings

#12900 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 3

#16 in adobe flash keyword 44

#22 in flash player keyword 54

#154 in flash keyword 52 ▲ 3

#186 in project keyword 23 ▲ 7

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User reviews

Users appreciate Furball's ability to enhance the Scratch website by adding useful features like the 'Discuss' button, dark mode, and notifications, resulting in a better overall experience. However, many report glitches such as navbar issues and logo glitches, and compatibility problems with newer Scratch 3.0 pages. Despite some bugs and feature conflicts, loyal users have consistently rated the extension highly and find it very helpful.

Pros

Provides a 'Discuss' button which users appreciate and find useful.
Includes a dark mode or 'Lights Out' feature that users like.
Enhances the Scratch website experience, making it more enjoyable.
Sends notifications for Scratch messages.
Experienced users have consistently rated it highly over time.

Cons

Extension is glitchy or causes visual errors such as messing up the navbar or logo.
Does not work properly with Scratch 3.0 pages or newer site versions.
Some features replace existing buttons causing confusion or inconvenience.
Initial message counts can be incorrectly displayed (e.g., showing a very high number).

Recent reviews

Its a great concept but sadly it absolutely butchered my navbar, everything was out of place so i disabled it. Once again, it would be a huge save of my life wasted staring at some lights.

Max, 2022-06-08

Super cool. I like the dark mode!

Voontyage Official, 2022-04-18

This wasnt the best. the scratch logo glitched out, the discuss just replaces my ideas button, its not the best... I'm sorry but i hope you could fix this!

Cthulhu's Cousin, 2022-03-31

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Furball requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Furball has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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