FlowerGUI (Browser Extension)

A Chrome extension companion to the FlowerGUI desktop app. Hold Ctrl + Shift and right-click anywhere on a webpage to open a flower-shaped radial launcher for your most recently visited sites.

It's Work In Progress, so you may find that not all features are working properly.

✨ Features

• Global Hotkey: Trigger the launcher on any webpage with Ctrl + Shift + Right Click
• Radial History Launcher: Petals are populated from your most recent browser history (deduped by domain), complete with favicon and page title
• Flower Positioning: The flower's center opens exactly at your cursor, clamped inward near viewport edges so it's never clipped off-screen
• Quick Close: Press Esc or click anywhere outside the flower to dismiss it

🚀 How to use it

1. Activate: On any regular webpage, hold Ctrl + Shift and right-click
2. Choose a page: Click one of the petal-shaped buttons to open that page in a new tab
3. Close: Press Esc, or click anywhere outside the flower, to dismiss it without choosing anything

📦 Installation

This extension isn't published to the Chrome Web Store — it's loaded as an unpacked extension:

1. Open chrome://extensions in Chrome
2. Enable Developer mode (top-right toggle)
3. Click Load unpacked
4. Select this project's root folder (FlowerGUIBrowserExtension)
5. The FlowerGUI extension should now appear in your extensions list

If you tinker and make code changes, click the reload icon (⟳) on the extension's card in chrome://extensions, then refresh any already-open tabs you're testing in.

🔐 Permissions

Permission	Why it's needed
history	To read your recent browsing history and populate the petals
favicon	To display each site's favicon on its petal
tabs	To open a petal's link in a new tab
host_permissions: <all_urls>	To inject the content script (hotkey listener + flower overlay) on any page you're browsing

⚠️ Known limitations

• Only works in Chrome/Chromium-based browsers (built as a Manifest V3 extension); not tested in Firefox or Safari
• Won't trigger on chrome:// pages, the Chrome Web Store, or the built-in PDF viewer — Chrome doesn't allow content scripts to run there
• Petals only link to http(s) pages from your history; other schemes (e.g. file://) are filtered out