Τι είναι το Throbber;

Το Throbber είναι ένα πρόσθετο Chrome που αναπτύχθηκε από τον http://deathbyvanilla.com, και η κύρια λειτουργία του είναι "A vintage user interface element for your modern browser.".

Στιγμιότυπα Επέκτασης

Λήψη αρχείου CRX της επέκτασης Throbber

Λήψη αρχείων επέκτασης Throbber σε μορφή crx, εγκατάσταση των επεκτάσεων Chrome μη αυτόματα στον περιηγητή ή κοινοποίηση των αρχείων crx με φίλους για εύκολη εγκατάσταση των επεκτάσεων Chrome.

Οδηγίες Χρήσης της Επέκτασης

Relive the 90s with the Throbber extension!
Choose to go Netscape style or Netscape-killer style, depending on your mood.

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As far back as the first web client, NCSA Mosaic, there has been a need to convey that the browser is not frozen and pages are, in fact, loading.
This is where the first such activity indicator came in.

It was believed to gain the name "throbber" when Netscape 1.0 was released with a pulsing "N" logo. This animation was actually a last-minute choice, since the animation the Netscape team wanted to use was based on the name "Mosaic," a name they were no longer allowed to use for legal reasons.

This lead Netscape to hold an animation contest to replace the throbbing N, and the winner was a monolithic N standing on a planetary object as meteors rain. Netscape tweaked it to the recognizable animation that lasted for years through many Netscape versions with little modification.
Two of those N variants are included in this extension.

When Microsoft came to town to compete in the browser-space against Netscape, they developed their own throbber featuring a globe rotating through the Internet Explorer icon.
One of the most popular variants of that animation is also included in this extension.

Eventually web browsers would evolve to support tabbed browsing and include a simple activity indicator on each tab until loading completes, spelling the end for the classic throbber. Thus this extension provides little practicality in Chrome, and is just a fun little throwback to the roots of the world wide web.

Sources:
https://www.jwz.org/doc/about-jwz.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080206124223/http://wp.netscape.com/home/contest/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#First_Browser_War

Βασικές Πληροφορίες Επέκτασης

Όνομα	Throbber
ID	bhdngfbcaehcdgpohimclmbkkejhdieo
Επίσημο URL	https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/throbber/bhdngfbcaehcdgpohimclmbkkejhdieo
Περιγραφή	A vintage user interface element for your modern browser.
Μέγεθος Αρχείου	1016 KB
Αριθμός Εγκαταστάσεων	371
Τρέχουσα Έκδοση	0.2
Τελευταία Ενημέρωση	2017-11-02
Ημερομηνία Δημοσίευσης	2017-11-02
Αξιολόγηση	4.17/5 Συνολικά 6 Αξιολογήσεις
Προγραμματιστής	http://deathbyvanilla.com
Ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο	[email protected]
Τύπος Πληρωμής	free
Υποστηριζόμενες Γλώσσες	en
manifest.json
{ "update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Throbber", "description": "A vintage user interface element for your modern browser.", "version": "0.2", "author": "Wilson", "options_page": "options.html", "options_ui": { "page": "options.html", "chrome_style": true }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": "img\/mozillic1\/icon1.png" }, "permissions": [ "storage" ], "incognito": "spanning", "background": { "scripts": [ "background.js" ], "persistent": false }, "icons": { "16": "img\/icon_16.png", "48": "img\/icon_48.png", "128": "img\/icon_128.png" } }