[jimmySixDOF]

Hey Nice idea I like the concept as someone who does sometimes go back through old history files to find that site I was on last week/month and knows how frustrating it can be as an experience.

One question I have is about the persistence of this extension when Im not using it and influence on other browsing loads like if I visit a WebGPU heavy shader site will having Pinbot installed drop my available framerate for example ?

Otherwise its a great Idea and will definitely put it on at least one machine I use so thanks for putting this out into the world and good luck with it !

[klavinski]

The extension uses an SQLite database in the Origin Private File System[0]. Disabling the extension keeps the database, while removing it deletes the database.

Regarding performance, here is how it works: the extension accumulates page changes (thanks to a Mutation Observer[1], so I do not have to regularly read and compare the page) for some time, then checks if the sentences are in the database. Only unknown sentences are converted to embeddings.

The extension is CPU-only currently (WebGPU support was not merged yet in transformers.js), so it may be slow. I understand your concern, while that is a proof of concept, I consider a good performance to be vital to a good user experience.

[0] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sqlite-wasm-in-the-browser... [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...

[dublinben]

Firefox is much better at resurfacing sites that you've been to before. There's even a built-in address bar search shortcut of '^' which searches within just your history.

Chrome is obviously incentivized to push you to making a Google search anytime you're trying to find something, instead of looking within your browser.