Follow from afar.
Fraidycat Extension
Fraidycat also focuses on \"importance\" - each account or website that you follow can be assigned a priority, whether you want to keep up in \"Real-time\" or if you \"Rarely\" want updates. In this way, you can track important \"Real-time\" follows on the front page, while lower priority items are hidden away.
Other features are:
- Sync. If you are logged in to Chrome, your follows will be synced between any Chrome browsers running the extension.
- Import and export of your saved data to JSON, OPML and HTML files.
- Tags. Follows can be categorized into separate tabs. Even emoji can be used as tags!
- Concise. Rather than filling up your display with large posts, each follow is given two lines of summary. (See our screenshots.)
- Live and pinned posts. If an account is currently 'live' or has 'pinned' posts, these are shown in that follow's status line.
- Dark mode. You can alternate between light and dark themes.
- Fraidycat supports most social networks and feed types.
Fraidycat is a whole new concept in tracking creators on the Web. If you don't quite see how this is different from a classic feed reader, check out our video above to see the tool in action.
\"I did not expect how immediately and wholeheartedly I would appreciate and enjoy [Fraidycat] once I began to use it.\" - Jason McIntosh
\"I am enjoying the browser extension called Fraidycat, which presents a lovely, anarchic opportunity: follow all the people you like, no matter what platform they’re using, without having accounts on those platforms. Basically, it’s an 'RSS… or whatever' reader.\" - Robin Sloan
\"It’s really neat, and I’m already finding it a much more deliberate and less distracting way of surfing the modern web that doesn’t just involve me mindlessly refreshing social feeds and closing and opening various browser tabs like a rat in a maze.\" - Nick Statt, The Verge
Source Manifest.json
"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",
"manifest_version":2,
"name":"Fraidycat",
"short_name":"Fraidycat",
"version":"1.1.10",
"description":"Follow from afar.",
"homepage_url":"https://fraidyc.at/",
"icons":{"32":"images/flatcat-32.png",
"48":"images/flatcat-48.png",
"64":"images/flatcat-64.png",
"128":"images/flatcat-128.png"},
"options_ui":{"page":"settings.html"},
"content_scripts":[{"matches":["https://fraidyc.at/s/*"],
"js":["js/index.js"],
"css":["css/fraidy.css"],
"all_frames":true},{"matches":["*://*/*"],
"exclude_matches":["https://fraidyc.at/s/*"],
"js":["js/webext/content-script.js"],
"all_frames":true}],
"web_accessible_resources":["popup.html",
"js/index.js",
"css/fraidy.css",
"fonts/inria-400.woff2",
"fonts/inria-400x.woff2",
"fonts/inria-700.woff2",
"fonts/inria-700x.woff2",
"fonts/signika-400.woff2",
"fonts/signika-400x.woff2",
"fonts/signika-700.woff2",
"fonts/signika-700x.woff2",
"images/1f5d2.png",
"images/270f.png",
"images/add.svg",
"images/catspace.webp",
"images/favicon-32.png",
"images/favicon-64.png",
"images/favicon.png",
"images/fc.png",
"images/flatcat-128.png",
"images/flatcat-16.png",
"images/flatcat-32.png",
"images/flatcat-48.png",
"images/flatcat-512.png",
"images/flatcat-64.png",
"images/flatcat.png",
"images/gear.svg",
"images/globe.svg",
"images/logo.png",
"images/notepad.svg",
"images/portrait.png",
"images/portrait.svg",
"images/rec.svg",
"images/sort.svg",
"images/supported.png",
"images/working.webp"],
"background":{"scripts":["background.js"]},
"browser_action":{"default_title":"Fraidycat",
"default_icon":{"16":"images/flatcat-16.png",
"32":"images/flatcat-32.png",
"64":"images/flatcat-64.png"}},
"permissions":["http://*/",
"https://*/",
"https://m.facebook.com/*",
"https://*.fbcdn.net/*",
"https://www.instagram.com/*",
"https://www.reddit.com/*",
"https://pbs.twimg.com/*",
"https://twitter.com/*",
"storage",
"tabs",
"unlimitedStorage",
"webRequest",
"webRequestBlocking"],
"browser_specific_settings":{"gecko":{"id":{94060031-effe-4b93-89b4-9cd570217a8d},
"strict_min_version":"57.0"}}}
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