Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position (opens in new tab)

I just developed a Chrome extension using a content script, very similar to this extension.

Extension author, question: What was your process for getting updates from the content.js script loaded into the browser for testing? Was it reloading the extension through chrome://extensions?

The only thing I found that could work was changing the content script and reloading the extension through chrome://extensions. I didn't see any type of "shortcut" available. Frustrating, and increased time on my change/test feedback loop.

It got to a point where I moved the core logic from my extension into a separate npm package where I got it working through unit tests. Then my browser extension became primarily working with the DOM, and incorporating the results from my package.

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What I really want is an extension that will let me open a retweet by right clicking and opening it in new tab. That way I don't lose my scroll position and can get a collection of things I want to read. I went looking for such a thing but couldn't find it.

I did find Control Panel for Twitter though, which is a great improvement.

The good: building an app to scratch your itch.

The bad: using Twitter and Chrome in 2024.

I'll see myself out.

I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.

Hope this was a good exercise in extension building because I don't think its advisable to work on personal projects involving Twitter at this point

Nice. Instant download.

EDIT: the flash is a bit extreme on dark mode, and hides the text. Would be good to make this just a light alpha overlay which fades the same way, or / and ability to just turn the flash off

Also need an extension that would block the 'feature' of pausing the video when you scroll it out of view.

I swear these brain-dead social media websites get stupider every year. Worse yet, they pick up each other's bad habits (Tiktok -> Twitter -> Instagram in this case it went)

was this working in the past?

Cool, you created an extension for browsing a hate speech-promoting platform, good for you.