Inspired by a post on One Sentence Startup Pitches, Ooh Yikes is a Chrome extension that plays an audio file of me saying "Ooh yikes!" when the user opens an incognito window. However, due to time and frustration from Chrome's autoplay policy, I gave up half way through.
So the extension mostly works but also really doesn't at the same time.
The extension listens for an incognito window open. On this event, a function executes that will open a new tab on the incognito window to google.com in order to bypass the limitation of injecting HTML into the chrome:// URLs. With this new tab opened, the background script calls a function to inject a content script into the page. The content script creates an HTML audio element which is set to autoplay and then play.
This is the part I couldn't figure out. When I put a document.onload callback in, the code would work sometimes but not all the time. I was lazy and I didn't figure it was worth this much effort for a joke so I decided to call this project off or until I feel like completing it.
Clone this repository.
Turn on developer mode on Chrome.
Load unpacked and select the folder of the extension.
You're set!
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