ClickCounter

This is a WebExtension (both chrome and firefox supported), which allows you to find out how much clicks you make on the web. Looks like this:

But what counts as "click on the web"?

Mouse click or emulated "click" event
Made on a website - browser UI or internal browser URL's don't count
Made using a primary button (left button), or:
The one that triggers "contextmenu" event (right click)

This extension was tested on Firefox 48 and Chromium 52.

Installing

You need to download or clone this repo first. Like this:

git clone https://github.com/zb3/ClickCounter.git

In /chrom(e|ium)/i

I didn't pay Google $5, so this extension is not published on webstore, but we can install it anyway:

Go to chrome://extensions
Drag file named cc.crx into that page
~~Uninstall~~ Enjoy!

alternatively, you could enable the "Developer mode" there and click on Load unpacked extension... button, then select this project's directory.

In Firefox, until restart

Go to about:debugging
Click Load Temporary Add-on
Select any file in the project's directory.

In Firefox, permanently

Oh, this is a little harder, because I didn't submit this to AMO, and I didn't sign this either. But since we're advanced users, we can do everything, including installing ClickCounter on Firefox.

Make sure you have a version of Firefox that doesn't require signing addons:
- On Windows this is trivial - just use Beta or Developer version
- On Linux the above is not always easy, fortunately there's a crack. After running that you'll also need to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config. And of course, after browser update, you'll need to reapply the crack. But this is fun!
Or just sign the cc.xpi file by submitting it to Mozilla. :)
Drag the file named cc.xpi into the browser

Notes

Some domain names are long so they don't fit, and you should then see ... in that domain name. But if you copy that, whole domain name will be copied. Thanks to text-overflow magic!

Development

To pack the extension, use:

./pack_ff.sh
./pack_chrome.sh #requires "chromium" installed

Note that manifest.ff.json is not a JSON file (makes sense, right?), it contains FF specific addition, namely addon ID, which is required for unsigned addons.

But we need this only for xpi packed addons, you can still use about:debugging + Load Temporary Add-on with chrome-compatible manifest.json file.

For chrome, Load unpacked extension should work just fine.

zb3 / ClickCounter