Omnibear

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Omnibear is an open source browser extension for posting text notes, replies, bookmarks, and likes to your website using Micropub created by Keith J. Grant.

Links to install the browser extension:

• Firefox: pending review
• Microsoft Edge
• Chrome: TBD
• Install from source

Status

• Since 2024-11,  Anthony Ciccarello is talking with Keith and working on fixing Omnibear to work with the latest Chrome and Firefox add-on APIs and download sites. If you want to help please ping aciccarello in #dev on the chat. For reference, the GitHub repos:
  • Omnibear browser extension code
  • omnibear.com website code

Features

IndieWeb features that Omnibear supports:

• publishing posts:
  • note
  • reply
  • bookmark
  • favorite
  • repost
• along with
  • tags
  • slugs
  • Identifying sites that support webmentions (icon when responding/reacting to posts)

You can right-click on an any h-entry to reply, like, or repost it.

See Also

• Micropub and Micropub/Clients
• events/2026-01-01-hackathon

• open source
• Software
• Micropub Clients
• stubs