MemoryPet Chrome Extension: Animated Toolbar Pets That Reflect Memory Usage
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Veit Voss
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Summary
MemoryPet is a Chrome browser extension that adds animated pets to your toolbar, with their movement speed reflecting your computer's memory usage. The article is a user review/comment expressing enthusiasm for the product, noting its simplicity and minimal design. The user suggests adding a preview feature to see pet animations at different speeds before selecting one, and asks whether the tool tracks memory per tab or for the whole browser.
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· 4 pulledHey man, this is super cool — I've already installed it!
Sometimes minimal is better.
One thing that would help: maybe a little preview somewhere to see how each pet looks at different speeds?
is this tracking memory usage for a single tab, or the whole browser?
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