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duiker101 · 4 years ago
Relative Bookmarks is a little browser extension I made for myself to help me navigate to the same page across different instances of the same app. I find it very useful for development and I always wanted it, so I made it.

You can find it directly on the Chrome Web Store

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/relative-bookmarks...

defaultchar · 4 years ago
A while ago I made a bookmark add-on which could be used to do something similar. But it sunk without a trace on HN. Posting it here as readers probably already interested in bookmark related stuff...

https://defaultcharacter.com/2021-09-bookmark-controller-int...

southerntofu · 4 years ago
for what it's worth i think it's pretty cool. if i understand right i can use it for example to change all links from dead site to archive.org, or from youtube.com to my favorite invidious instance.

(i also echo your sentiment that JS is deeply flawed :))

thanks for sharing

defaultchar · 4 years ago
Yeah, I spent too much time making it and not enough thinking about how I would explain what it does!

Thanks for the feedback.

soheilpro · 4 years ago
Unrelated to this, but is there any extension that lets you easily switch between different instances of a website?

Like dev.example.com/about and example.com/about?

southerntofu · 4 years ago
You can probably do that with some "javascript:" URLfoo
hericium · 4 years ago
s/Browser/Chrome/, please.

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hopesthoughts · 4 years ago
You can do this with URLs. For instance, I have just the feeds page of my RSS reader bookmarked.
h0p3 · 4 years ago
I adore your name. In case you've not seen it, I think you might enjoy trying out this RSS tool: https://fraidyc.at
hopesthoughts · 4 years ago
Thanks your's is epic too!! I can't use RSS browser extensions for accessibility purposes. Therefore, i use Miniflux, https://miniflux.app.
duiker101 · 4 years ago
If there is a way, please, share it! I have not been able to create relative bookmarks natively and while doing research everything points to bookmarklets, which is what this extension does in the end.

Worth noting, after starting, I added a few extra features that I found useful, like mixing query parameters.

akirk · 4 years ago
You can use a bookmarklet like this:

  javascript:location.href='/about'
An easy way to create a bookmarklet from scratch is to create a bookmark from some other page and then modify the URL.

hopesthoughts · 4 years ago
So that's what I do I created a bookmark from the main page of my Miniflux instance, and then put /feeds on the end. I also have one for the new subscriptions page. Since it's a separate page, linked from the feeds list, I bookmarked it too.
ricc · 4 years ago
Does this work in Brave?
duiker101 · 4 years ago
Brave is a Chromium browser and according to this article it should

https://brave.com/learn/installing-chrome-extensions/

ricc · 4 years ago
Yeah, that's what I also thought but I can't seem to get it working, but maybe I'm just using it wrong. Would it be possible for you to record a quick visual demo, i.e. video, of how to use the extension? Thanks in advance