Organize and filter your browsing history with Surfed. Surfed respects your privacy and ensures that your data stays on your device.

Latest Version

Version
3.1.1
Update
October 21, 2024
Size
392KiB
Developer
surfed.app
Category
Users
109
Rating
1 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
Deutsch
English
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Permissions
NativeMessaging
ActiveTab
Tabs
ClipboardWrite
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Surfed Extension

Your unified browsing history across browsers with a powerful search.
Surfed is a powerful companion for browsing.

Organise your links and browsing history with Surfed, your personal search engine for your history and links.
With Surfed, finding visited websites has never been easier and faster.

Never lose track of a visited website or interesting link again. Surfed helps you keep your browser history, bookmarks, and links organized.

Surfed is a Safari history and bookmark manager, as well as a web automation tool. Search and filter your browsing history using multiple search terms and full-text search.

Surfed stores the browsing history of all visited websites in Safari, allowing you to search through the history using various metadata and find the desired web pages faster and more accurately. Recording the history also enables you to create dynamic lists of visited websites, track browsing activity statistics, and get an accurate overview of all sessions.

Quickly search your history or bookmarks using multiple search terms.

This extension only works on macOS in combination with Surfed after installing the Surfed extension helper.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Surfed", "description": "Organize and filter your browsing history with Surfed. Surfed respects your privacy and ensures that your data stays on your device.", "version": "3.1.1", "default_locale": "en", "icons": { "48": "images/icon-48.png", "96": "images/icon-96.png", "128": "images/icon-128.png", "256": "images/icon-256.png", "512": "images/icon-512.png" }, "background": { "service_worker": "background.min.js" }, "content_scripts": [{ "js": [ "Readability.js", "content.min.js" ], "matches": [ "" ] }], "action": { "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "permissions": [ "nativeMessaging", "activeTab", "tabs", "clipboardWrite", "contextMenus", "scripting" ], "host_permissions": [""], "omnibox": { "keyword" : "su" }, "commands": { "keycommand-favorite": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+F", "mac": "Command+Shift+F" }, "description": "Favorite" }, "keycommand-tag": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+I", "mac": "Command+Shift+I" }, "description": "Add to lastest Tag" }, "keycommand-dashboard": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+0", "mac": "Command+Shift+0" }, "description": "Show Dashboard" } }, "chrome_url_overrides": { "newtab": "dashboard.html" }}
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How to download and manually install Surfed extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Surfed extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Surfed extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Surfed extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Surfed extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Surfed extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Surfed Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Surfed extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Surfed extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Surfed extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Surfed extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Surfed extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Surfed extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Surfed extension file

Select and download the Surfed extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Surfed extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Surfed extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Surfed extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Surfed extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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