Glass Browser

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A floating transparent browser for Windows.

• Stays on top of other programs and apps.
• Adjust transparency.
• Click-through mode that ignores clicks and lets you interact with apps behind.

Building & running it locally:

• Clone the repo.
• cd to the directory
• make sure electron is installed npm install electron
• install and run with npm install && npm start

Packaging it (.app for mac, .exe for windows, or for linux ** Untested on Mac and Linux)

• Install Electron Packager Interactive with npm install -g electron-packager-interactive
• run epi
• Follow steps
  • Icon is `./assets/icon.ico'

Using it

• Enter a URL and hit >Enter
• Resize and position the window where you want it.
• Adjust transparency to your liking.
• Click the eye to enable click-through mode. It will ignore mouse clicks and let you interact with windows below.
• To disable click-through and interact with the window again, click the icon in the Windows dock/taskbar and minimize it, then click again to open it and it will be disabled.

Known Issues

• Transparency seems to not be working on Linux - but it still floats above other windows.