For those of us that are way behind on your favorite web comic, the only way to make any progress is to:
1. Open a bookmark to the latest comic you’ve read
2. Read any number of comics
3. Manually copy and paste the new link to the latest comic you’ve read back in to your bookmark
This add-on automates that process by providing you a one click bookmark updater. It works by finding the bookmark whose link is closest to your current tab (ie, the closest link to your current tab of http://xkcd.com/699/ might be your bookmark to http://xkcd.com/680) and replacing that bookmark’s link with your current tab’s link. In the case where there are two bookmarks that are equally close, you’ll get a popup saying that the add-on could not find a unique closest bookmark and no changes will be made.
Note this extension is also available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/comicupdater/
Exactly what I was looking for, amazing job! It could use a nicer icon and maybe some options to please the qualms the other reviewers are facing.
I’d be happy to make a better icon for you free of charge. Send me a message on G+ if you’re interested.
UPDATE: as of 2017 or so this doesn’t seem to work anymore which is fairly disappointing.
Excellent. I read a lot of webcomics, and this makes keeping track of my place very easy.
Only possible improvement I could think of would be setting a certain bookmark folder, so you can keep other bookmarks for the same site in another. But, this is only a suggestion–it’s great as-is.
Does exactly as advertised!
Works like a charm
I will marry this extension given half a chance.
Works great for me! Thanks!
Fills a huge need!
only 4 stars because it has some lacking features:
– confirm bookmark to be updated
– alg to find closes matching bookmark is a bit lacking.
Exactly what I was searching for, plain and simple
Finally we have this app, so I can catch-up on my web comics and not have to work about the bookmarking work!!! Thank you!
Handy tool for those of us who watch anime, read manga, or comics online. Only reason not a 5 is i would like a pop up to confirm which link it’s updating as i have multiple links from the same domain want to make sure i’m updating the right one.