Chrome extension: Conversion Helper

Very quick reply: I’m publishing version 2.0.4, which makes this compatible with the redesigned site. I’ve published it for Chrome and will do a Firefox release next. It should pop into existence on the Possessions tab once your extension updates (assuming that you haven’t disabled it). Bug reports welcome!

Thank you so much! I really love this extension, it is incredibly useful.
Are you planning on updating your library extension, too? I like how it declutters some categories (and having a well organized library is always nice, wherever you are).

excellent! I use a lot of extensions but I was completely lost without this one. Game is playable again.

Love this! Thank you!

I’m going to see if I can help to get Playing Favourites ported over to the redesign first, since that’s a bit more immediately useful to more players; but after that, I’ll absolutely look at Library, sure!

After today’s site changes, the inventory categories aren’t working quite right. Clicking on items in any of the extension’s categories doesn’t immediately go to the use storylet; instead it brings up the description-with-use-button, like on the mobile layout. Items in the regular inventory aren’t affected.

Thanks for the heads-up. This is an issue I’ve been experiencing throughout porting to the redesign — I mentioned it as a known issue in the subreddit announcement but forgot to do so here; apologies for that. (I’m surprised you weren’t experiencing it prior to the update a couple of days ago; that’s interesting and may be informative.)

The bug relates to how the redesigned site distinguishes between taps and mouse clicks in order to show tooltips differently; programmatic clicks (which I’m using in FLCH) are handled as taps. As far as I can tell it’s a bug with a third-party package; I’ve raised an issue on GitHub with the package’s maintainer and will request that the FL dev team upgrade if/when it gets resolved (assuming it’d be painless to do so; obviously they are sufficiently busy that supporting browser extensions is not a high priority).

In the meantime there is probably a workaround I can implement, but it’ll take some time and brainpower, both of which are (currently and chronically, respectively) limited. Apologies for the ongoing inconvenience — I am currently on Winking Isle but will be back in London soon and therefore strongly personally motivated to get it fixed. :-)

This seems to be broken for me, as of today. The boxes are there, the expand/close buttons work, but every slot is grey and empty.
Screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1Zm3N9bP8hHkGGvo-2A7h8UdG8cfv6O/view?usp=sharing

Can confirm, some update broke the extension. The categories are there but empty, also the curiosity category is glitched out but that might be another bit of broken css I’m running.

Same here. For reference, this is what mine currently looks like: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

I’ve just published version 3.0.0, which updates the extension to work with yesterday’s updates to the FL site. It’s a bit of a quick and dirty fix, and I’ll come back and tidy it up, but items should be displaying again.

Thanks, it does indeed work. Much appreciated!

Yep, looks great!

It looks like something’s up with this extension again. I’m not sure if there was a recent update to FL that’s causing it, but the extension doesn’t seem to be working at all right now.

Hey! It’s working OK for me at the mo. Are you on Chrome? If so, please take a look at this thread: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic27376-psa-conversion-helper-and-goat-farmer-on-chrome.aspx

Basically, there’s a bug in some versions of Chrome that breaks browser extensions. If the fix in the linked thread doesn’t give you any joy, let me know and I’ll escalate it to tier 2 support (tier 2 is also me, but involves me swearing at my computer a bit more).

I am indeed on chrome, and that thread’s fix worked beautifully. Thank you very much.

[quote=Gallmarch]Hey! It’s working OK for me at the mo. Are you on Chrome? If so, please take a look at this thread: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic27376-psa-conversion-helper-and-goat-farmer-on-chrome.aspx

Basically, there’s a bug in some versions of Chrome that breaks browser extensions. If the fix in the linked thread doesn’t give you any joy, let me know and I’ll escalate it to tier 2 support (tier 2 is also me, but involves me swearing at my computer a bit more).[/quote]
[color=rgb(194, 194, 194)]I think its broken again since yesterdays Chrome update. I’ve tried to fix in chrome://flags/ but couldn’t find &quotEnable network service&quot entry anymore. Is there any solution to this? These axtensions are so convenient. [/color]

You’re absolutely right — Chrome 76 made some under-the-hood changes. Thanks for the heads-up! I’ve just published version 3.0.5 to the Chrome Web Store, which seems to fix things. I’ll keep an eye on it, though.

I’ll publish a similar update for Goat Farmer ASAHP.

Conversion Helper works fine again on Chrome after your update. Thank you fou your amazing work!

Thanks for confirming! That’s excellent news; means that the same approach will work for Goat Farmer. I’ll try and get something out there by the end of the day.