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Chrome Web Store listing
Everything the developer dashboard asks for, in the order it asks.
Package
scripts/package-extension.sh at the repository root builds build/open-in-knotchy-<version>.zip. It holds only
manifest.json, background.js and icons/. Upload that zip.
Store listing
Title (from the manifest): Open in Knotchy
Summary (from the manifest): Adds "Open in Knotchy" to the right-click menu of links: opens them in Knotchy's disposable, isolated browser.
Description:
Right-click any link and choose Open in Knotchy to open it in Knotchy's disposable browser instead of Chrome.
Knotchy is a free, open-source Mac app. Each link opens in its own throwaway Linux virtual machine, shown in a panel under your MacBook's notch. The page can reach the internet but not your Mac or your local network, and the whole machine is destroyed when you're done. It's meant for links you don't trust: unexpected email links, shortened URLs, and sites you'd rather not open in your own browser.
This extension does one thing: it passes the address of the link you right-click to the Knotchy app on your Mac. It passes only http and https links, can't see the pages you visit, and sends nothing anywhere else.
Requires the Knotchy app, on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. The first time, Chrome asks whether to open Knotchy; allow it.
Category: Privacy & Security. Language: English.
Graphics:
| Asset | File |
|---|---|
| Store icon, 128 × 128 | icons/icon-128.png |
| Screenshots, 1280 × 800 (at least one) | store/screenshot-*.png, made as below |
| Small promo tile, 440 × 280 | store/promo-440x280.png |
| Marquee, 1400 × 560 (optional) | store/marquee-1400x560.png |
scripts/make-icons.sh regenerates the promo images with the icons.
Screenshots must be real captures:
- With the extension loaded in Chrome, press ⌘⇧5, set a 5-second timer and capture the screen. During the countdown, right-click a link so the menu shows Open in Knotchy.
- Open a link that way and capture the Knotchy panel under the notch with ⌘⇧4.
- Fit each capture to the store's frame:
swift scripts/icons/frame.swift ~/Desktop/capture.png extensions/chrome/store/screenshot-1.png
Homepage and support URLs: the GitHub repository and its issues page, once the repository is public.
Privacy practices
Single purpose: Open a link in the Knotchy Mac app from Chrome's right-click menu.
Permission justification, contextMenus: Adds the Open in Knotchy item to the right-click menu of links, and
nothing else.
Host permissions: none requested.
Remote code: No. All code ships in the package.
Data usage: tick none of the data types. The extension collects nothing: the clicked link goes only to the
Knotchy app on the same Mac, through its knotchy:// URL scheme, and never to a server. Tick the three
certifications (no selling or transferring data, no use unrelated to the single purpose, no use for creditworthiness).
Privacy policy: not required, since no user data is collected. If the dashboard asks anyway, link a page that says: "Open in Knotchy collects no data. It passes the link you choose to the Knotchy app on your Mac and sends nothing to any server."
Distribution
Public, free, all regions.