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This is tricky because it's happening in the toolbar which has a limited amount of space.

1. Go into Options.
2. Click Refresh Voices from Server button.
   Result: The Languages popup has every entry repeated.
   Note: refreshing page fixes.

Was struggling to get unloadable background pages working correctly, so logic was added to free memory references to large sound buffers after 30 minutes.

The extension is now "persistent": false in the manifest, so in theory, the memory should be freed at some point by chrome.

Then only real cost is that replaying the sound requires it be downloaded again. (Maybe enable aggressive caching to save on quota budget?)

Initially using this extension is pretty tricky since it requires getting an API key from Google.
The extension really needs to explain why this is a good thing (e.g. the extension isn't adding any surcharge) and how to go about getting a key.

There's an api call to get the latest and greatest voicelist from Google.

• Add UI button to start update (maybe in the Settings dialog)
• Save newest list into localstorage (it can be large)
• Could fetch with aggressive caching and let the browser cache hold it.

Using static extension id for urls (e.g. chrome-extension://amgdfpkjgcdgofgaanclahjickdjpicn) is bad if the extension id changes.

Clicking links should be sent to js to have the id inserted into the urls, then navigated.

Hearing the same voice all the time is boring.

Add a feature that will checksum a site's domain and then consistently select a voice to use for that site.

1. New install.
2. Go to Options
3. Enter API Key
4. Scroll down and try to click Test button.
   Result: button is still disabled.

Reading HTML from clipboard is so much better than reading plain text from context menu. (e.g. things like numbered lists are lost when using just text. Also, the pausing after headers, etc isn't possible with plain text).

However, getting html from a page is NOT supported by the chrome context menu and this feature requires injecting script into EVERY page.

The privilege requirement is a security/privacy issue.

Quota tracking attempts to keep track of usage, but there's no notification to the user when they pass 50%, 80%, 95% of monthly quota (which is set by Google).

Todo: Double-buffer really long text (splitting by paragraph). While one section is reading, it's preloading the next.