Chrome extensions are a useful way to personalize your browser experience and making your own is a great weekend project for beginner and experienced programmers alike.

The Basics

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a simple extension that will help automate a simple task on Reddit. After selecting any subreddit, our extension will give the option to launch a new tab directly to that subreddit’s Top Posts of All Time.

When a user right-clicks, they will be given this option. Revolutionary? Not really, but this extension demonstrates some fundamental features that can be modified and built on in a lot of different, more powerful, ways.

You can view the GitHub for this entire project here and feel free to copy and change it however you want.

Let’s get started.

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