Getting started

Palet is a command palette for Chrome. It lets you search your open tabs, bookmarks, and browsing history from a floating overlay — accessible from any page with a single keyboard shortcut.

Installation

1. Visit the Chrome Web Store and search for Palet — Command Palette for Chrome
2. Click Add to Chrome
3. Accept the permissions — Palet needs access to your tabs, history, and bookmarks to search them
4. The Palet icon appears in your toolbar. Click it to open settings
5. Press Ctrl+Shift+Space on any webpage to open the palette

Free vs Pro

Palet has a permanent free tier — no time limit, no credit card needed. A 14-day Pro trial starts automatically on install. After the trial, Palet continues working with all free features. Upgrade to Pro ($24 one-time) to keep Pro features forever.

Keyboard shortcuts

Palet is designed to be used entirely with the keyboard.

Custom shortcut (Pro)

Pro users can change the keyboard shortcut from the Palet popup. Click the Palet icon in the toolbar → Change shortcut → press your preferred key combination → Save. The default Ctrl+Shift+Space always works as a fallback.

Search

Palet searches across multiple sources simultaneously as you type:

• Open tabs — all tabs across all Chrome windows
• Bookmarks — your entire bookmark library including nested folders
• History — last 7 days (Free) or last 90 days (Pro)
• Recently closed tabs — shown at the top when no query is typed
• Extensions — all installed Chrome extensions
• Commands — all browser and tab management commands

Search uses fuzzy matching — you don't need to type the exact title. Typing gh pull will find "GitHub — Pull requests" even without the full words.

Default view

When you open the palette without typing anything, you see your 3 most recently closed tabs followed by your 5 most recently active open tabs. Start typing to search everything.

Result types

Each result shows a colored left icon and a right badge indicating its type:

Copy URL

Press Ctrl+C while a result is highlighted to copy its URL to the clipboard without opening it. A brief confirmation appears in the footer.

Prefix search

Type > to open the prefix search menu — a list of all available search filters. Continue typing to narrow the options, then press Enter or click to select.

Free prefixes

Pro prefixes

After selecting a prefix you can continue typing to filter within those results. For example >bookmark github shows only bookmarks matching "github".

Browser & tab commands

Type any of these in the palette to trigger Chrome actions without opening a new tab:

Tab management

Browser commands

Custom aliases Pro

Aliases let you open any URL by typing a short keyword. For example, type gm to open Gmail.

Creating an alias

1. Click the Palet icon in the toolbar to open the popup
2. Scroll to the Custom aliases section
3. Enter a keyword (e.g. gm), a label (e.g. Gmail), and the URL
4. Click Add Alias

Aliases appear at the top of search results when you type their keyword. They are stored locally and can be deleted from the popup at any time.

Extension search & closed tabs

Palet indexes all your installed Chrome extensions. Type any extension name to find it instantly.

• Results show whether the extension is currently enabled or disabled
• Click or press Enter to toggle the extension on or off
• Hover for a preview showing status and description
• Use >extension prefix to list all extensions (Pro)

Recently closed tabs

Recently closed tabs appear at the top of the default view with a red ↩ icon and a "closed" badge. Press Enter to reopen instantly. Use >closed prefix to list all recently closed tabs.

Multi-tab select Pro

Select multiple tabs and close them all at once without leaving the palette.

1. Search for tabs or use >tab to list all open tabs
2. Hold Ctrl and click any tab result to select it — it highlights in red
3. Continue Ctrl+Clicking to select more tabs
4. The footer shows how many tabs are selected and a Close X tabs button
5. Click Close X tabs to close all selected tabs at once
6. Click Cancel to deselect all and return to normal

Help panel

Click the ? button in the palette footer to open the built-in help panel. It has three tabs:

• Search — all prefix search commands with Free/Pro labels
• Tab Commands — all tab management commands
• Browser — all browser commands

Press Esc or click ? again to close the help panel and return to search.

Calculator & conversions Pro

Type a calculation or unit conversion directly in the palette. Results appear in a purple bar above the search results with a one-click Copy button.

Math

Currency

Supported: USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, RSD, CAD, AUD, CHF. Rates refresh daily.

Units

License & Pro

Palet has a permanent free tier with no time limit. A 14-day Pro trial starts automatically — no credit card needed. After the trial, all free features continue working. Upgrade to keep Pro features forever.

Free vs Pro

Activating Pro

1. Purchase a license at localext.com/pricing
2. You will receive a license key by email (check spam if not in inbox)
3. Click the Palet icon in the toolbar
4. Paste your license key in the License field
5. Click Activate Pro

Privacy

Palet makes zero network requests during normal use. All data — your tabs, history, bookmarks, aliases, and license key — is stored in your browser's local storage using Chrome's IndexedDB and chrome.storage APIs.

The only external request Palet makes is a daily currency rate fetch from api.exchangerate-api.com for the calculator feature. This request contains no personal data and can be avoided by not using the currency conversion feature.

License key validation calls localext.com/api/validate-license once when you activate Pro. After activation, no further network requests are made for licensing.

See our full Privacy Policy for details.

Getting started

Watchdog monitors your installed Chrome extensions — their permissions, risk levels, network activity, and behaviour changes. It runs silently in the background and alerts you when something changes.

Installation

1. Visit the Chrome Web Store and search for Watchdog — Extension Privacy Guard
2. Click Add to Chrome
3. A 14-day Pro trial starts automatically — no credit card needed
4. The Watchdog icon appears in your toolbar. Click it to open the popup
5. All your installed extensions are listed immediately with risk scores

The popup

The Watchdog popup has six tabs — Extensions, Alerts, Profiles, Schedules, Rules, and Settings. The header shows your live browser health score, high risk count, and dangerous permission count.

Extensions tab

The main view lists every installed extension with its risk score and a brief explanation of why it was scored that way.

Risk scores

Details panel

Click Details › on any extension to open its detail view. This shows:

• Install type and version
• All permissions in plain English with ⚠ markers on dangerous ones
• Domains the extension has contacted (if any HTTP calls were detected)
• Permission history — a timeline of every permission change ever recorded

Quick disable (Pro)

Click the ⏸ button next to any extension to disable it instantly without opening chrome://extensions. Click ▶ to re-enable. This is a Pro feature.

Dormant extensions

Extensions that haven't been active for 30+ days but still hold sensitive permissions are flagged with an amber ⚠ warning. Disabled extensions that still hold sensitive permissions are also flagged — they may have been forgotten but still technically have access to your data.

Alerts

Watchdog fires alerts for the following events:

Unread alerts show a blue left border. Opening the Alerts tab marks all visible alerts as read and clears the badge count on the toolbar icon.

Alert history with search and export (Pro)

Pro users can search alerts by extension name, filter by alert type, and export the full alert history as a CSV file using the ↓ CSV button.

Extension profiles Pro

Profiles let you save named groups of extensions and switch between them with one tap. Activating a profile enables all extensions in it and disables everything else.

Creating a profile

1. Go to the Profiles tab
2. Click + New Profile
3. Enter a name (e.g. Work, Research, Gaming)
4. Choose a colour for the profile dot
5. Check the extensions that should be enabled in this profile
6. Click Save Profile

Activating a profile

Click Activate on any profile card. Watchdog will enable all extensions in the profile and disable all others. Watchdog itself is never disabled.

Click Deactivate to restore all extensions to their previous state.

Editing a profile

Click the ✎ edit button on a profile card to open the editor. Add or remove extensions, rename the profile, or change its colour. Changes take effect the next time the profile is activated.

Schedules Pro

Schedules automatically activate a profile at a set time on selected days. Your browser adapts to your schedule without you touching it.

Creating a schedule

1. Create at least one profile first
2. Go to the Schedules tab
3. Click + New Schedule
4. Select which profile to activate
5. Choose the days — Weekdays, Weekends, or Every day
6. Set the start and end time
7. Click Save Schedule

Schedules can be toggled On/Off without deleting them using the toggle button on each schedule card.

Custom risk rules Pro

Custom rules let you override Watchdog's automatic risk scoring with your own judgement. Rules are evaluated after the default scoring and take priority.

Creating a rule

1. Go to the Rules tab
2. Click + New Rule
3. Enter a name for the rule
4. Set the condition: choose a field, an operator, and a value
5. Choose the action
6. Click Save Rule

Condition fields

Actions

Examples

Extension comparison Pro

Compare two extensions side by side to see which permissions are shared, which are unique to each, and which one requests less access overall.

1. Go to the Compare tab
2. Select the first extension from the left dropdown
3. Select the second extension from the right dropdown
4. Click Compare →

Results show permissions colour-coded by ownership:

• Blue — only in extension A
• Amber — only in extension B
• Grey — shared by both

Audit digest Pro

The audit digest generates a complete snapshot of your browser extension landscape — risk scores, recent activity, dormant extensions, custom rules, and profiles — as a printable HTML page.

Generating a digest

1. Go to the Settings tab
2. Click 📋 Generate digest now
3. A new browser tab opens with the full report
4. Press Ctrl+P to print or save as PDF

Automatic digest

Set the digest frequency to Weekly or Monthly in Settings. Watchdog will notify you when a new digest is due. The notification does not generate the digest automatically — click it to open Watchdog and generate manually.

Browser hardening

Watchdog provides two browser-wide privacy toggles in the Settings tab.

Block third-party cookies

Prevents cookies set by domains other than the one you're visiting. This blocks the main mechanism advertisers use to track you across websites. When enabled, Chrome's own cookie setting is updated — you will see the toggle greyed out in chrome://settings/cookies with a puzzle-piece icon indicating an extension is controlling it. This is expected behaviour.

This is a free feature.

Strip tracking parameters Pro

Automatically removes tracking parameters from URLs as you browse. Covered parameters include:

This uses Chrome's declarativeNetRequest API — stripping happens at the browser level before the page loads, with zero performance impact.

License & Pro

Watchdog has a permanent free tier with no time limit. A 14-day Pro trial starts automatically on install — no credit card needed. After the trial, all free features continue working. Upgrade to Pro ($29 one-time) to keep Pro features forever.

Free vs Pro

Activating Pro

1. Purchase a license at localext.com/pricing or localext.com/watchdog
2. You will receive a license key by email (format: WATCHDOG-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX)
3. Click the Watchdog icon in the toolbar to open the popup
4. Go to the Settings tab
5. Paste your license key in the License field
6. Click Activate Pro

The license key works on any number of your personal devices. Your license is validated once on activation and re-checked every 30 days.

Privacy

Watchdog makes zero network requests during normal monitoring. All extension data — permissions, alerts, profiles, rules, and schedules — is stored in your browser's local IndexedDB. Nothing is ever sent to any server.

The only external requests Watchdog makes:

• License validation — calls localext.com/api/watchdog-validate once when you activate Pro, and once every 30 days to re-verify. The request contains only your license key — no extension data, no browsing data.

The third-party cookie blocking toggle modifies Chrome's privacy settings directly via the chrome.privacy API — no network call is made.

The tracking parameter stripping feature uses Chrome's declarativeNetRequest API with locally stored rules — no network call is made.

See our full Privacy Policy for details.