Bento extension 1.1.0

The browser extension for Bento: capture the tab you are looking at onto a contact sheet.

New in 1.1.0

• The popup closes itself once a capture has gone through, after a beat long enough to read the confirmation. A failed capture keeps it open, with whatever you typed still in place.
• The confirmation now sits next to the Capture button rather than at the foot of the strip, where a full popup could push it under the fold.
• The settings form has a way back out. Get the token wrong and you are no longer stuck there until you close the popup.
• The recent strip shows the last four frames instead of twelve, so the frame you are about to capture is not buried under a long scroll.

Installing

1. Download bento-extension-1.1.0.zip below and unzip it.
2. Open chrome://extensions, or edge://extensions.
3. Switch on Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and pick the unzipped folder.
4. Open the popup and paste in your Bento site's address and your extension token, which is on the site under Settings.

Your browser will warn about developer mode every time it starts. That is the cost of installing from outside a store, not a sign anything is wrong.

There is deliberately no .crx here. Chrome refuses to install a packaged extension from anywhere but its own web store, so a .crx would look like it worked and then fail silently.

What it does

• Capture the current tab in one click: title, url, favicon and a screenshot of the visible page
• Quick capture on Ctrl+Shift+S, or Cmd+Shift+S, without opening the popup
• Pick a folder before saving, remembered between captures
• Star a capture from the popup
• Re-capturing a page you already saved merges into it rather than duplicating it

Which browsers

Plain Chromium MV3, so it loads unchanged in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and Opera. Firefox needs a separate build target and is not included yet.

Permissions

activeTab, tabs and storage, and no host permissions at all. It reads the tab only when you press capture, keeps your token in local storage, and talks to nothing but the site address you paired it with. See Privacy.

You still need a Bento to point it at

The extension is half the project. Deploy the site first, or use an existing deployment, then pair the two with the token from its Settings page.

Bento extension 1.0.0

The browser extension for Bento: capture the tab you are looking at onto a contact sheet.

Installing

1. Download bento-extension-1.0.0.zip below and unzip it.
2. Open chrome://extensions, or edge://extensions.
3. Switch on Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and pick the unzipped folder.
4. Open the popup and paste in your Bento site's address and your extension token, which is on the site under Settings.

Your browser will warn about developer mode every time it starts. That is the cost of installing from outside a store, not a sign anything is wrong.

There is deliberately no .crx here. Chrome refuses to install a packaged extension from anywhere but its own web store, so a .crx would look like it worked and then fail silently.

What it does

• Capture the current tab in one click: title, url, favicon and a screenshot of the visible page
• Quick capture on Ctrl+Shift+S, or Cmd+Shift+S, without opening the popup
• Pick a folder before saving, remembered between captures
• Star a capture from the popup
• Re-capturing a page you already saved merges into it rather than duplicating it

Which browsers

Plain Chromium MV3, so it loads unchanged in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and Opera. Firefox needs a separate build target and is not included yet.

Permissions

activeTab, tabs and storage, and no host permissions at all. It reads the tab only when you press capture, keeps your token in local storage, and talks to nothing but the site address you paired it with. See Privacy.

You still need a Bento to point it at

The extension is half the project. Deploy the site first, or use an existing deployment, then pair the two with the token from its Settings page.