Making the RescueTime Chrome Extension correctly report website usage in Chromium

README.md

Making the RescueTime extension work in Chromium

By default, the RescueTime Chrome extension doesn't report exact site usage because the extension determines browser usage by parsing the User Agent string in the request. So we need to fool the extension into thinking that we're using Chrome, not Chromium, which means it will accurately report usage statistics to RescueTime.

1. Determine the extension's ID by visiting chrome://extensions
2. If you have not done so before, check Developer mode in the top right.
3. Locate the id of the RescueTime extension. It will look something like this: ID: bdakmnplckeopfghnlpocafcepegjeap
4. Navigate to the Chromium extensions location on your machine: ~/Library/Application Support/Chromium/Default/Extensions/{extension_id}/3.0.18_0
5. Edit RescueTimeUtil.js to return the browser as being Chrome. See the example in RescueTimeUtil.js in this gist.

RescueTimeUtil.js

    getBrowser: function() {
        if (this.browser == null) {
            var v = this.getWindow().navigator.userAgent;
            if (v.indexOf("Firefox/") > -1) {
                this.browser = "firefox";
            } else if (v.indexOf("Chrome/") > -1) {
                this.browser = "chrome";
            } else if (v.indexOf("Chromium/") > -1) {
                this.browser = "chrome";
            } else if (v.indexOf("Safari/") > -1) {
                this.browser = "safari";
            } else {
                this.browser = "unknown";
            }
        }
        return this.browser;
    },
    getBrowserVersion: function() {
        if (this.browserVersion == null) {
            if (this.getBrowser() == "firefox") {
                this.browserVersion =
		    this.getWindow().navigator.userAgent.split("Firefox/")[1];
            } else if (this.getBrowser() == "chrome") {
                this.browserVersion =
                    this.getWindow().navigator.userAgent.split("Chrome/")[1].split(" ")[0];
            } else if (this.getBrowser() == "chromium") {
                this.browserVersion =
                    this.getWindow().navigator.userAgent.split("Chromium/")[1].split(" ")[0];
            } else if (this.getBrowser() == "safari") {
                this.browserVersion =
                    this.getWindow().navigator.userAgent.split("Version/")[1].split(" ")[0]
            }
        }
        return this.browserVersion;
    },

Thank you!