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Automatically displays interactive tooltips for acronyms with their expansions.
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Research papers and articles often utilise non-standard acronyms (NSAs) that are introduced early in a text and then used throughout, and these are surprisingly easy to forget. This extension automatically identifies these acronyms on websites and adds tooltips containing their expansion to each one - allowing you to hover over them to see their full meaning.
*** New in v1.9 ***
- Added ability to manage the stored acronym data for sites, including automatically deleting the data 'x' days after the site was last visited !
- Added regex support to create lists of sites to NEVER tooltip (e.g. github, youtube, etc)
*** Key features ***
- Automatic Acronym/Expansion Detection
- Customisable Acronyms: Delete, edit, or even add new acronyms
- Stored Site Acronyms: Acronyms are specifically saved to each site, so when revisiting an old paper you can still see all your automatically/manually saved acronyms !
- Create Key Acronyms: Key Acronyms are implemented across ALL sites, so you can create a central bank of acronyms/expansions (for example a list of genes and their functions), and have these automatically applied to every paper you visit !
- Toggle Acronym Visibility: This will turn off all non-key acronyms, useful for when you're reading a familiar paper
- Import/Export Key Acronyms: Key Acronyms can be easily imported/exported to enable quick sharing and personal storage !
- Hidden Acronyms: Acronym-Expansion pairs that won't be tooltipped on any site (useful if theres a common acronym you come across a LOT)
Latest reviews
- (2025-03-24) Cae Rule: I get so frustrated with random acronyms used in papers, articles, or any kind of post - especially when the author just assumes every reader knows. The dev in me wanted to build an extension to ease this frustration, but turns out this already exists and it's awesome! Thanks!
- (2024-09-05) Alys Moindrot: Such a helpful extension! Easy to use and saves so much time when reading academic papers :)
- (2024-08-25) Dani H: Very useful for reading academic journals and very demure.
- (2024-08-17) Gracie Kerr: Incredibly helpful and easy to use, can't believe this didn't exist before!