Comic Updater

A button that replaces the bookmark location that shares the most characters with the current tab with the current tab's location.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-05-14

By: ian.hannibal.lake

Users: 181

Rating: 4.67 (21)

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2021-10-30)

Creation date: 2017-12-09

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

bookmarks
notifications
tabs

Size: 15.64K

Email: ia*****@gmail.com

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Summary

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For those of us that are way behind on your favorite web comic, the only way to make any progress is to:

Open a bookmark to the latest comic you've read
Read any number of comics
Manually copy and paste the new link to the latest comic you've read back in to your bookmark

This add-on automates that process by providing you a one click bookmark updater. It works by finding the bookmark whose link is closest to your current tab (ie, the closest link to your current tab of http://xkcd.com/699/ might be your bookmark to http://xkcd.com/680) and replacing that bookmark's link with your current tab's link. In the case where there are two bookmarks that are equally close, you'll get a popup saying that the add-on could not find a unique closest bookmark and no changes will be made.

Note this extension is also available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/comicupdater/

User reviews

Exactly what I was looking for, amazing job! It could use a nicer icon and maybe some options to please the qualms the other reviewers are facing. I'd be happy to make a better icon for you free of charge. Send me a message on G+ if you're interested. UPDATE: as of 2017 or so this doesn't seem to work anymore which is fairly disappointing.

Adrien Green, 2017-10-04

Excellent. I read a lot of webcomics, and this makes keeping track of my place very easy. Only possible improvement I could think of would be setting a certain bookmark folder, so you can keep other bookmarks for the same site in another. But, this is only a suggestion--it's great as-is.

senselocke, 2017-02-24

Does exactly as advertised!

Ec Little, 2015-11-19

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Risk impact

Comic Updater may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.