Museum in a Tab

Science Museum Group Collection Chrome Extension

This Chrome browser extension loads a random object with an image from the Science Museum Group Collection each time the user opens a new tab in the Chrome browser. View a preview of the page rendered by the extension in each new tab.

• The Chrome extension files are in the Chrome Extention folder.
• The docs folder contains the web version which is public at https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/collection-chrome-extension/index.html.
• Correctly sized images for the Chrome Web Store are in the chrome-store-promo-images folder.

Installing in Chrome

Instructions for testing on the Chrome browser:

1. Using the Chrome Browser, visit the extension's Chrome Web Store page
2. Click on the "Add to Chrome" button

Installing in Safari

Instructions for use in the Safari browser:

1. Select Safari dropdown menu and then "Settings..."
2. Select the "General" tab
3. Set "New window opens with" to "Homepage"
4. Set "New tabs opens with" to "Homepage"
5. Set "Homepage" to https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/collection-chrome-extension/index.html

Installing in Firefox

Instructions for use in the Firefox browser:

1. Select Firefox dropdown menu and then "Preferences..."
2. Select "Home" in the right-hand navigation
3. Under the "New Windows and Tabs" heading set "Homepage and new windows" to "Custom URLs" and enter https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/collection-chrome-extension/index.html in the "Paste a URL" box.

Open Source License

Licensed under the open source MIT License with the exception of the icons which are copyright iconmonstr and the SMG Sans font which is copyright The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum.