Show notable forks of GitHub projects.

Latest Version

Version
3.7.3
Update
November 6, 2023
Size
945KiB
Developer
musicallyut.xyz
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
4.61538 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
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Lovely forks Extension

An extension to help you notice notable forks of GitHub projects.

Sometimes on GitHub, projects are abandoned by the original authors and the development continues on a fork. However, the original repository is often not updated to let new-comers see that. I have many times wasted effort on making a pull-request or installing old buggy versions of projects when the community had already moved to a fork.

To make matters worse, the old projects usually have higher search-engine traffic and a lot more stars than the forks. This makes the forks even harder to find. This extension tries to remedy that by adding a subscript under the name of the repository on the Github page of all projects with a link to the most notable fork (i.e. the fork with the most stars), if such a fork exists.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Lovely forks", "version": "3.7.3", "manifest_version": 3, "description": "Show notable forks of GitHub projects.", "homepage_url": "https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks", "icons": { "128": "webext/icons/Heart_and_fork_inside_128.png" }, "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": [ "webext/icons/star.svg", "webext/icons/flame.svg" ], "matches": [ "*://github.com/*" ] } ], "options_ui": { "page": "webext/options_ui/options.html" }, "host_permissions": [ "*://github.com/*", "*://api.github.com/*" ], "permissions": [ "storage" ], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "*://github.com/*" ], "css": [ "webext/data/style.css" ], "run_at": "document_start" }, { "matches": [ "*://github.com/*" ], "js": [ "webext/data/contentscript.js" ], "run_at": "document_end", "all_frames": true } ], "browser_specific_settings": { "gecko": { "id": "[email protected]" } }}
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User reviews

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Lester Jan “Teryo” Teodoro (ID: 000000056da85909) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 01/17/2022 i rarely make a comment on this webstore but this one deserve a 5 star. seriously it helps me update my favorite app on github that is already abandoned.

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Tema Smirnov (ID: 0000007539aa0b70) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/18/2020 Excellent! Thanks for extension

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Cohan (ID: 0000008cc89792d7) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 06/27/2017 Hit or miss, mostly miss. I've found so far all the "Lovely" forks it's been suggesting are *years* more outdated than the one I'm looking at. I get that the extension can't magically create a maintained fork but if a fork was last updated in 2011 and the project I'm looking at was last committed early 2016 I'm probably not interested in the former.

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CHUNMING CHOI (ID: 0000008a34f36504) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/01/2016 Simple but very useful.