Emoji reactions in Google Chrome

Chrome gives a page one Like, one Star, or one upvote. Emojery puts the whole emoji set in that same row, with counts anyone can recount.

Install it

  1. Open the Emojery listing on the Chrome Web Store.
  2. Click Add to Chrome, then Add extension in the confirmation.
  3. Pin it: click the puzzle-piece icon in the toolbar and pin Emojery, so the popup is 1 click away. Step by step.
  4. Open any supported site and look for the emoji button in its action row.
Drawing Pinned, the icon sits beside the address bar and counts the Emojery buttons on the page you are looking at.

What you get in Chrome

The Emojery button in a site's action row, next to the site's own Like, Dislike and Share controls
The button joins the row the site already has, wearing that row's shape and colors.
Installs from Chrome Web Store
Reviewed by Google, before the listing is published and again on every update
Account needed Not to read counts. One sign-in with a provider you already use the first time you react
Mobile Desktop only. On Android, use Firefox or Edge - the Android section of the install page has the full list.
Incognito Off until you allow it, under Details in chrome://extensions. What changes there
Price Free, open source, no ads, no tracking.

What you are installing

Chrome runs the listing through its own review before publishing it, and again on every update. That review is the floor. The argument is the code: the whole extension is public under GPL-3.0, so what it does is open to reading, and you can build and install your own copy instead of ours.

The permissions it asks for are listed with a reason each on browser permissions. In practice it needs to see the supported sites to find the action row, and it sends the address of the page you react on. Privacy has the full list of what leaves your browser, and what it never collects.

Chrome Sync does not carry your settings

Your reactions follow your account, so signing in on a second computer shows them right away. Your settings and your reaction history are per install, and Chrome Sync does not move them.

Moving to a new machine is therefore a short procedure you run yourself: export, install, sign in, import.

A second Chrome profile is a second install

Chrome profiles are how most people keep work and personal browsing apart, and each one gets its own copy of every extension. Emojery installed in your work profile knows nothing about the settings, the pinned state or the history in your personal one.

Your reactions are the exception: they live with the account, so signing in with the same provider account in both profiles shows the same picks on the same items. Moving between browsers covers what to carry by hand.

Using a different browser?

Add it to Chrome

Two clicks, no account, and nothing to configure. Reading the counts needs nothing at all; signing in is only what lets you add to them.