Omnibear

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Omnibear was an open source browser extension for posting text notes, replies, bookmarks, and likes to your website using Micropub created by Keith J. Grant.

Status

• Since 2024-11, Anthony Ciccarello is talking with Keith and working on fixing Omnibear to work with the latest Chrome and Firefox add-on APIs and download sites. If you want to help please ping aciccarello in #dev on the chat. For reference, the GitHub repos:
  • Omnibear browser extension code
  • omnibear.com website code

Features

IndieWeb features that Omnibear supports:

• publishing posts:
  • note
  • reply
  • bookmark
  • favorite
  • repost
• along with
  • tags
  • slugs
  • Identifying sites that support webmentions (icon when responding/reacting to posts)

You can right-click on an any h-entry to reply, like, or repost it. You may also interact with posts on twitter.com and facebook.com the same way.

See Also

• Micropub and Micropub/Clients
• Chrome extension
• Firefox add-on no longer available, requires install below:
• source on GitHub (includes directions for use as well as how to load directly into some browsers if the extensions aren't currently available)