Comment by pcthrowaway

2 years ago

> full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited

This is amazing.

But wouldn't this extension end up taking up a massive amount of space? Does it index text which is fetched and hydrated after page load?

Also, does it strip HTML from the text so that text <strong>like this</strong> can be searched with exact phrase matching?

Is the source code for fttf available? I'm sure you're lovely, but I'm nevertheless reluctant to install an extension which has access to all pages

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iansinnott  2 years ago

It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course.

It used a distilled version of the web page, i.e. "reader mode" and indexes that rather than the full HTML. So yes it indexes plain text only and, in theory, ignores headers footers and other non-interesting parts of web pages.

Anecdotally I find it invaluable for finding a web page I know i've seen but can't remember.

It's not open source as of this comment, but the plan is to open source it. Agreed that OSS for something like this is important. It will index all your auth-ed pages too.

It's also not minified or obfuscated, so the source is "available" in that sense.

  • pcthrowaway  2 years ago

    > It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course.

    If the publication date (Nov 30) is an indication of how long you've been using it, it's not exactly lightweight :P

    > It's not open source as of this comment, but the plan is to open source it

    Might be really useful with some configuration around which domains to archive; I may contribute (or fork if you're not accepting contributions) if it is released under an OSS license

    > It's also not minified or obfuscated, so the source is "available" in that sense.

    Amazing!

    • iansinnott  2 years ago

      Cheers! would be happy to have contribution.

      I've been using it for longer than the publish date. A few months at this point. It's also roughly twice the size it needs to be I think, as the FTS index could be optimized. So there's room for improvement.