NeoConfirmation Extension

A bare-bones extension for Google Chrome or Opera that makes it harder to accidentally delete comments.

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I tried really really hard to make this a really epic extension and I worked on it for probably a solid 20+ hours, but after spending all of that time on it I realized that I could make it so much simpler and easier and I gave up lol.

All this extension does is shift the delete button way over to the right and bold it, so it's harder to click it by mistake. When you hover over the delete button, it disappears for three seconds, so it requires a timeout which also prevents you from clicking it on accident. After three seconds without moving your mouse, it'll pop back up looking like this, and you can click it to delete the comment like normal.

You can download the extension below (hosted right on my site):

NeoConfirmation v0.1

Once you have the extension downloaded, unzip the file. To use it, you must add it as an extension in the browser of your choice, and you must be in Developer Mode to do so.

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Opera Instructions:

1.) Go to opera://extensions in your browser.

2.) Make sure that the 'Developer mode' toggle in the upper-right corner is toggled on.

3.) Select the button that says 'Load unpacked'.

4.) Select the unzipped folder you downloaded earlier.

5.) It should then show up up on your list of extensions.


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Google Chrome Instructions:

1.) Go to chrome://extensions/ in your browser.

2.) Make sure that the 'Developer mode' toggle in the upper-right corner is toggled on.

3.) Select the button that says 'Load unpacked'.

4.) Select the unzipped folder you downloaded earlier.

5.) It should then show up up on your list of extensions.

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Current Bugs (v0.1):

Nothing that I'm aware of yet, but I'm sure there will be something lol.

What Could Have Been

I really did spend so much time working on the original version before I gave up T_T I had so many lines of code that got deleted for this version lol. The original idea was a popup that showed up when you clicked the delete button, and I literally had that entire thing coded and ready to go, but I couldn't figure out how to stop the original delete function from firing, no matter how much I tried... which is why I realized that I don't even need a confirmation, I just need to make it harder to hit the delete button in the first place. But I still put a lot of effort into it and I saved my code for it in case I ever figure it out lol.

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