#chrome extension

Tired of scrolling back and forth to quote your favorite lines in a 10k word chapter? Stop the madness. ✋

The AO3 Quoted Comment Tool is a Chrome extension that lets you leave "inline" style comments (think Wattpad style) that automatically format into a beautiful blockquote comment at the end. Here’s how to set it up!

🛠️ Step 1: Installation

Head over to the Chrome Web Store and search for AO3 Quoted Comment Tool.

Or click HERE.🔗

Click Add to Chrome.

Pro-Tip: If you’re on Firefox, look for the "AO3 Inline Comment Companion"—it’s a similar vibe!

⚙️ Step 2: The Best Setting

For the smoothest experience, you’ll want to make sure your AO3 preferences are set to "Chapter by Chapter" rather than "Entire Work." This keeps the extension from getting overwhelmed on those 200k-word behemoths.

✍🏻Step 3: How to Comment While Reading

Once the extension is active, you’ll notice a new quote icon 💬 next to every paragraph on AO3.

Find a line that makes you scream/cry/throw your phone.

Click the icon 💬 next to that paragraph.

Type your reaction in the little box that pops up.

Hit Save. Your comment is now stored locally in your browser—it won't disappear if you refresh!

⭐ Step 4: Generating the Mega-Comment

Finished the chapter? Now for the magic.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to the standard AO3 comment box.

You’ll see a new button: "Insert and clear saved comments."

Click it. The extension will automatically dump all your quotes into the box, perfectly formatted with tags, followed by your reactions.

Add any closing thoughts and hit Comment!

Pro-Tip: If you quoted a long paragraph, but you only meant a word or a line that just hit. You can edit the quote to reflect that before sending the comment.

📢 Disclaimer

Just a heads up: I am not the developer of this extension! I’m just a chronic fic reader who found this tool and realised it changed my life, so I had to share. Important Tech Stuff: > * 💻 This is a Desktop/PC-only extension (Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers).

📱 Sadly, it won't work on the mobile AO3 site or any apps because mobile browsers don't support Chrome extensions.

The extension gives you a few animal buddies that show up on your 'new tab' with optional accessories and stuff, and they give if a new name and often a slightly different look each time, even in a refresh.

ANYWAY MINE IS THE WILD KITTY AND I HAVE THIS

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST....

Of course, we have the honorable mentions of those whom I wasn't able to get screenshots of:

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Sooo chrome is trying to block manifest V2 extensions, which includes ones like Ublock origin. Here's how I got around it, this won't work forever... but it works for now and that's enough for me: (explanation on the bottom)

goto chrome://flags

set "temporarily unexpire M139 flags" to enabled

relaunch

the flag "Allow legacy extension manifest versions" should now be a flag, set it to enabled

relaunch and download Ublock origin's release .zip file from their *official* github (be sure to grab the one that has a green "latest" tag)

Then extract the zip into a folder (preferably somewhere organized but ya know anywhere works)

then you need to goto chrome://extensions and enable developer mode

then press "load unpacked" and select the folder that looks like this

Viola! now you have a version of ublock origin on chrome!

A quick explanation of what each step does is below for those curious!

Download the Google Chrome plug-in: Custom Calendar Background https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/custom-calendar-backgroun/acjecbgflnhmeldadcbblhfdimhifpki?hl=en&pli=1

Allow access to your Google Calendar

Make sure to pin it to your google chrome header

Click on the icon and select "Options"

This tab should open, you should get an image url or choose a color from the options they have.

What's an image url?

Select "Copy Image Address"

Paste it into the text box on the Extension tabs

Select "save"

Go back to the Google Calendar tab, and refresh if necessary

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Every writer knows this frustration.

You’re working on a draft — maybe a blog post, an essay, or a client deliverable. You need to check the character count because your meta description can’t exceed 160 characters, or because your editor wants exactly 500 words.

So you do the dance: Ctrl+C, open a new tab, find an online word counter, Ctrl+V, wait for the page to load, check the number, close the tab, go back to writing.

It’s not just annoying — it breaks your flow. And if you’re working with sensitive content (client drafts, personal essays, academic papers), you also have to wonder: where exactly is my text being sent right now? Most online word counters run on external servers. You paste your text, and it goes… somewhere. For writers, editors, and students working with confidential material, that’s a real problem.

I got tired of this dance. So I built Text Stats — Word & Character Counter, a Chrome extension that solves both problems at once.

What it does:

⚡ Instant text statistics. Select any text on a webpage, click the icon (or press Alt+W), and you immediately see: word count, character count (with/without spaces), estimated reading time.

🔒 100% private and offline. Your text never leaves your device. No servers, no analytics, no tracking. Everything is processed locally.

📊 Advanced stats on demand. Toggle a switch and get: number of sentences, paragraphs, average word length, average sentence length, longest/shortest sentences, unique words.

🌍 CJK character counting. It correctly handles Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters — something most word counters get completely wrong.

🌗 Automatic dark mode and 11 languages supported.

Why it matters:

If you’re a writer, you stop breaking your flow to check word counts. If you’re an SEO specialist, you quickly check meta description lengths or title tag character counts without leaving the page. If you’re a student, you hit your assignment word limits without copy-pasting into random websites. And if you’re anyone who cares about privacy, you know exactly where your text is — on your device, and nowhere else.

Try it out:

Search for "Text Stats" in the Chrome Web Store, or find it directly here: Text Stats on Chrome Web Store. It’s free, has no ads, and requires no sign-up.

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I was going to post about the lovely BDFI x II tour haul I got and upload my zine BUT NO!! BECAUSE TODAY CAN'T JUST BE NICE AND FUN!!

FUCKING CHROME ALMOST DELETED MY UBLOCK EXTENSION (which is really bad) AND MY AO3RDR EXTENSION (which is down right evil)!!!

My ao3 extension is already on its last legs. The summary grabber, "sort by rating/author/fandom" buttons, and the search function have not worked in like 4 years. All of which is fine because it stores fics I've read in an easy-to-reach place, while also showing me my ratings for said fics ON the archive itself. It's a system that has been with me before I even had an account on the archive, so I'm really attached. The issue with them fucking with my ao3 extension is I just got around to reading more, which means I've been adding more bookmarks to it really recently. The last time I saved my data was March, so yeah. Chrome blocking me from saving my data would've lost me SO much new fic info if it wasn't for some internet scowering I wouldn't have been able to grab it (note, those experimental flags will def be gone in a while, so do at your own risk). But I digress, sure, it's great that I was able to get the data through roundabout means, but CHROME SHOULDN'T BE BLOCKING MY FUCKING EXTENSIONS TO BEGIN WITH!!!

I don't care if it violated your policy so many moons ago, I don't care if the extension barely works as advertised. It's my computer, my data, and my shit to deal with!!! Don't fuck with my fics!!! I've already got a shit memory and that little star thing having a rating is what keeps me from re-reading fics over and over again (not that that's a bad thing, never a bad thing, it's just not helpful when you're actively trying to find new fics with very specific tags).

How am I supposed to know that [Insert fic name here] was something I didn't like if I don't see

underneath the description? OR how am I supposed to know where I left off if I don't see

hanging out when I'm looking through chapters?? I'll tell you- I'm not going to know unless I spend my tiny amount of free time re-reading it!!

And I'm trying to get this to work under the developer mode in chrome, but there's 3 different manifest files and chrome doesn't build it unless I change the manifest.jason-chrome file to manifest.jason. But when I do that, the import data doesn't work which is like the only thing I need to work really. I just wanna import it and have it work- but I don't know how everything's connecting under the hood.

LIke what the fuck do I do with these???

They say to do ./build-chrome.sh but I don't know what that means or where to do that??? Apparently it's for Lunix??? Is... Is this bash??? I'm so lost and I just want to make sure my extension works forever and ever.

I don't even use the cloud function, I just use it locally, so I'm even more confused about why the buttons don't work anymore!

And sure- yeah, I could just man up and update my system of fic keeping--the extension stopped getting support in 2018--but literally the little star ratings work so well for me I'm desperate to keep it how it is.