This tool was created out of a personal need to occasionally download specific versions of chromium. Turns out it's much more cumbersome than one would expect. It's much easier for firefox, but still not as easy as it could be. This is my attempt of simplifying the process. Maybe it's helpful for someone else too.

The code is available on Github: https://github.com/pabueco/browsers.zip

Occasionally I want to compare the performance of different snippets or NPM packages, but I'm too lazy to setup a test locally and found some of the existing benchmark sites a bit clunky, especially when trying to evaluate packages/libraries.

This is my attempt of making this easier. Let me know what you think.

The benchmark data/setup/code is stored in the URL, so you can easily share or save them. You can also share the results as a nice image.

Interesting idea and approach!

Just a thought on the design: I really feel like the gold gradients make the whole site feel 'cheap', not trustworthy and not very 'professional'. Actually makes me not want to use it. Replacing them with a simple warm yellow improves this a lot. That might be just me, but maybe it's something for you to consider.

Good luck!

Not a designer, I appreciate this advice immensely, I’ll try!

Yep, specifically it looks to me like the kind of styling for a gambling or raffle website.

Or one of those pamphlets that come with packages from random companies on Amazon that tries to show how it's high quality.

Note taken lol wow

Honestly it's not that bad. For someone who's not a designer it looks rather polished.

Great extension, congrats on the launch!

It's really nice to use and the interface it provides (tab search, etc.) looks very good.

Not a big issue, but some of the text has some grammatical mistakes and spelling errors.

Also, is the extension itself open-source?

Thank you feedback and support, Can you point out the grammatical mistakes, please? I'm English not very well.

For now, the extension core not open source, but the extension plugin part will be open source, just like Alfred workflows.

Very cool project, congrats on the launch!

Just some thoughts and findings:

- After creating one theme, the plus-button on the dashboard page keeps loading forever after clicking it. The error in the console seems to indicate I have to upgrade to create another theme, but some kind of message would be nice.

- I feel like the editor really needs some kind of undo functionality. It's a bit frustrating/risky to experiment with the settings after you have found a combination you like.

- It would be cool if I could change the text/language in the preview. I get this might be a bit much, so providing more examples in a dropdown of some sort could be an alternative. E.g. I would like the see how a vue or svelte component would look like. Also a terminal preview would be nice. IMO all this becomes even more important (or necessary) when you consider that people would need to pay $6 to actually see how the theme looks for their use cases.

- I feel like letting people download one theme (maybe limited to a few apps) for free would lower the hurdle to get them to pay for it. Maybe that's not a concern and people don't mind, but it would definitely convince me.

Hope there's something useful in there.

Really cool product and definitely something I would use regularly after trying basically 99% of all themes out there and even creating my own.

Best of luck to you!

Great points, thanks so much for the feedback!

- Fixed the new-theme issue, not sure how I missed that.

- Undo is definitely a good idea!

- I was considering an embedded Monaco editor for more flexible previews, but didn't end up adding it for simplicity and security (since I'd have to send a mostly complete VS Code theme to the client). I think I'll just add more previews to mitigate it for now. Terminal preview is a good idea too.

- I'm expecting single-theme downloads to be the most common option for users, so I'm not sure how making them free would work out.

There's definitely quite some room for improvement. Thanks!

Great idea. I think this will fit nicely with the info tool. Also a accessibility contrast score might also be helpful. I will take a look at that. Thanks!

This might have something to do with CSS transitions. It's not intentional. Gonna take a look at it later. Thanks!

Ohh, very cool idea. I'll experiment with that a bit and see how this could work. Thanks for the suggestion!

Oh, I totally missed adding a license... Definitely gonna add it later. In case you want to know now: it's gonna be MIT. Thank you!