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First of all, remember that you’ll need to pay $5 to Google via Google Wallet.
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Easy, right? Now maybe you want the world to recognize you for your genius-if so, you need to upload your extension to the Chrome Web Store so anyone can download and use it. You’ve successfully created your own extension for Google Chrome which replaces words or phrases with ones you like more.
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If you choose to upload your extension to the Chrome Web Store, each time you make changes to the extension you’ll have to manually go in and update the version number to something higher before Google will accept it.įinal step (optional) – upload to Chrome Web Store Below is everything you’ll want to change. Next open up manifest.json so you can set the title, description, and version number for your extension. If all went well you should be able to do a Google search for the word you’re replacing and see that it was successfully replaced. Maybe whenever you see ‘Microsoft’ appear in your browser you want it to be replaced with ‘Micro’ followed by an expletive added appended to the end-it’s totally up to you! Make your changes, save it, and to make sure you didn’t break anything, go back to chrome://extensions/ and click the refresh button under your extension. The circled area in the image below is where you’ll set the word or phrase you’re replacing and the word or phrase that it’ll be replaced by. Go back to the extension folder you downloaded and open up content.js in the text editor of your choice. Voila, it worked! But there’s already an extension to replace ‘Millennials’ with ‘snake people’ so let’s change it to whatever you want. The extension should now appear and then when you visit a site with the word ‘snake people’ on it… Choose the folder you downloaded and confirm it by clicking “Select.” Chrome rightly doesn’t allow the installation of extensions from anywhere other than the Chrome Web Store, but getting around that is as simple as visiting chrome://extensions and checking the box that says “Developer mode.” A couple new buttons will appear right below, and you want to click “Load unpacked extension,” which will open up to the file directory.

Step two – enable Chrome developer mode & preview extensionĪlready you have a working millennials-to-snake-people extension, so now you’re going to go ahead and add the extension to Chrome just to see that it works. Step one – download the templateĭownload this folder I’ve created containing all the files that will make up the extension.

Note: If you have the “ Millennials to Snake People” Chrome extension installed already, you’ll probably want to uninstall it before continuing with this guide.
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So, here’s how to make a Chrome extension that replaces any word or phrase with the one of your choosing: And you don’t even need to have any web development experience, as I’ve already gone ahead done all the elbow work! When you’re finished you’ll be able to run this extension in the Chrome browser on your computer absolutely free, or for $5 you’ll be able to pay Google for the right to publish it to the Chrome Web Store where anyone can download it.

If these posts are driving you crazy, Millennials to Snake People will ease the pain! There’s also an older one called ‘ Cloud to Butt Plus’ which, while pretty self-explanatory, cuts straight to a kind of taboo topic that makes us uneasy and/or nervous, the feelings which are oftentimes best dealt with through laughter.īut maybe there’s some other word or phrase driving you mad that these extensions haven’t addressed. The media seems to have this non-stop desire to write think piece after think piece about how snake peoples are a smartphone-obsessed, basement dwelling generation who expect everything on a silver spoon. A couple weeks back you may have seen a lot of news coverage about a Chrome extension that, when installed, replaces all instances of the word ‘millennials’ on the webpages you visit with ‘snake people’.
