Personalization is something that is increasingly demanded by users, who want their own graphical environment. A little as a result of this, extensions were born, although their great explosion was when they were introduced in Google Chrome. The latest extension to catch on is 'Shimeji Browser Extension', which adds anime, musical and movie characters to our browser.
Currently the browser with the most extensions is Google Chrome, it is also true that it is the most used. So much so that Chrome has its own store of extensions that allow you to add personalization or additional functions. Firefox, Opera and Safari are the other browsers with their own extension store, although with a smaller number of them.
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Brief history of browser extensions
Although if we talk about extensions Google Chrome quickly comes to mind, its origin is much earlier. The first browser to support extensions was Internet Explorer in 1999 with version 5 of the browser. There really was no store and it was quite cumbersome to add the extensions, which might not work very well.
The next browser to support extensions was Firefox, which supported them since its launch in 2004. Later, in 2009, the Opera browser in version 10 allowed the use of extensions. Google Chrome was not until version 4 released in 2010 when it began to allow the use of them. Curiously also in 2010, the Safari browser version 5 began to support extensions. Finally, Microsoft Edge started supporting extensions in 2016 and more recently, supporting Google Chrome extensions thanks to Chromium-based Edge.
Extensions do not normally work between browsers due to the syntax of the extensions. To avoid these problems, a multi-tag strategy was proposed by the Mycroft project (no, not misspelled). A database of search engine plugins is offered that works in various browsers.
Features of browser extensions
These extensions allow you to improve the browser's user interface, security or accessibility, among other features. Its main purpose is to offer more ease and friendliness when browsing the internet. There are many different extensions that improve privacy and help mitigate potential security threats. You can, for example, prevent third parties from monitoring user movements or block ads and scripts.
The browser toolbar is one of the most used extensions, altering the user interface. All browsers with navigation toolbars allow you to extend the user interface and navigation functionalities. Each browser has its own toolbars, so a toolbar may not work in other browsers.
What are shimejis
A shimeji is a desktop software made by fans for fans, where you have one or more animated images. They are small virtual companions for smartphones, browsers and for PC.
Shimejis are usually anime characters, although there are also shimejis from musical groups, animated series, movies or comics. These shimejis can perform different actions: climb on the screen, sit, fall asleep, duplicate or even grab the mouse pointer.
Using the left button, we can move this virtual companion around the screen and leave it where we want. The right button on the character opens the menu of possible actions. It should be noted that not all shimejis have a menu.
Origin of the shimejis
The origin as such is not clear, but the shimejis apparently appeared with the Windows XP operating system. As far as it is known, there is no evidence of shimejis in previous operating systems. More recently, shimejis have appeared on Linux distributions and macOS, also being available on Android.
Shimeji Browser Extension
Currently, shimejis that move around the desktop are no longer usually added, the most common is the extension for Chrome. This Chrome extension has quite a few characters, although we can only add one in the browser. It should be noted that we can have up to three replicas of this character in our browser that will accompany us.
Shimejis have the ability to walk, crawl, climb the screen, and even interact with web elements. Some shimejis also perform actions in static and can vary the design according to the action we assign to it.
They have the property of working on websites such as: YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumbler, Instagram and practically any website.
Although this extension has been designed for Google Chrome, it also works on Microsoft Edge. We must say that it specifically works in the Chromium-based version of Edge. Additionally, the Shimeji Browser Extension also works on ChromeOS, Google's operating system.
How to install Shimeji Browser Extension
Well, the truth is that it couldn't be a simpler action. We can go to the extension developer's website or directly to the Chrome Web Store. If we go to the creator's website, a button appears to install now. Those who choose to go to the Chrome store, putting shimeji in the search engine is more than enough, since it appears as the first one.
I am using it from Microsoft Edge based on Chromium and it goes without problems
If we want to add characters, we must go to the directory that is in the official website. There we will find a large number of characters, a list that we leave you below, by the way.
We press 'get it' of the pack that we like.
The page of the set of characters opens.
We choose the one we like the most and we tell it to activate, as long as we already have the extension installed.
If we already have a character, it will tell us to change it, it is something very simple.
Once this is done, we just have to go to the mushroom that appears at the top right and click on the character to make them appear on the screen.
Shimeji Browser Extension Character List
- Adventure Time
- Alice in the Country of Hearts
- Assassin's Creed
- Attack on Titan
- The Avengers
- blobs
- bbc sherlock
- Bendy and the Ink Machine
- The Beatles
- BioShock
- Black Butler
- Bleach
- BTS (Bangtan Boys)
- Creepypasta
- Danganronpa
- Death Note
- Digimon
- disney movies
- Doki Doki Literature Club
- Dragon Ball Z
- will last
- eddsworld
- Fairy tail
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Gravity Falls
- Group Finity
- Hetalia
- Homestuck
- Hunter x Hunter
- IT 2017
- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
- Kingdom Hearts
- Mario
- MegaMan
- Miraculous
- My Chemical Romance
- My Hero Academia
- Mystic messenger
- Naruto
- Night in the Woods
- one piece
- One-Punch Man
- Osomatsu-san
- Persons
- Pokémon
- Pusheen
- Rick and Morty
- Sonic
- South Park
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Steven Universe
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Undertale
- Vocaloid
- Voltron
- X-Men
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Yuri!!! on Ice
Conclusion
If you are a fan of manga, anime, animated films, animated series, music or comics, the Shimeji Browser Extension is sure to like you. Being able to have up to three replicas of your favorite character on screen is a lot of fun. Shimeji Browser Extension consumes practically no resources and we can remove them if they bother us. Basically it is like having a virtual pet in our browser that performs different actions as we tell it.