💼 Browser extension - Update your bookmarks with site descriptions
Update your bookmarks.
Bookmark Refresh lets you to update your bookmarks with website descriptions. This is useful when using the address bar — typing a part of a website’s description recommends the bookmark.
Tested on Chrome 57+ and Firefox 51+.
Icon created by IconDots from the Noun Project.
To install Bookmark Refresh, download the latest release and load it as an unpacked (Chrome) or temporary (Firefox) extension.
Remember to backup your bookmarks! Open the extension and click Start. It will proceed to load your bookmarks and update them.
For example, a bookmark pointing to this page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>GoatGoatYo</title>
<meta name="description" content="GoatGoatYo is the search engine that
tracks you. We don't protect your search history from anyone – even us! 🐐">
</head>
...
Will have its title set to:
GoatGoatYo
When set (default: True), the above title becomes:
GoatGoatYo (GoatGoatYo is the search engine that tracks you. We don’t protect your search history from anyone – even us! 🐐)
Descriptions are found in this order:
1. | Meta | <meta name="description" ...> |
2. | Google+ / Schema | <meta itemprop="description" ...> |
3. | Facebook Open Graph | <meta property="og:description" ...> |
4. | Twitter Cards | <meta name="twitter:description" ...> |
Feel free to dive in. Open an issue or submit a PR.
Bookmark Refresh follows the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
MIT © Raymond Wanyoike