About this extension

Instantly get key details about a board game on BGG just by hovering over links. No more having to open millions of tabs just to find out if games interest you.

To use, hover over a link to a game's homepage, while holding CTRL, to launch the previewer. (You don't need to keep holding CTRL once the previewer appears.)

Issues/fedback? PM BGG user @Uncle Marzipan

Developer comments

Loads two requests when the window is opened:

- One to the BGG XML API v.2, to retrieve key data about the game
- One to an internal endpoint used by BGG to load game images

Since BGG's API is XML-based, the add-on parses into HTML via XSLT; thus, it will work only in browsers that support client-side XSLT. I believe this is all modern desktop browsers, but haven't tested other than in Win FF.

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Release notes for 1.0.2

Fixed minor bug re: games with no weight rating yet showing "0" rather than "--" as BGG does.

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