Finch – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

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Announcing Finch: hear your browser Your browser does a hundred small things a day and tells you about almost none of them. Finch gives it a voice. It plays a short, distinct sound the moment something happens: open a tab and you hear a cue, finish a download and you hear another. Page loads, bookmarks, closed windows, a navigation that fails, each one its own brief, recognizable sound. The name fits: finches are songbirds, and you tell the species apart by their calls. Honestly, it began as nostalgia. I am a sound lover. Back in the Windows XP and 7 days, Internet Explorer let you turn on a sound for "navigation complete", and the click when you followed a link was on by default. I loved that, and the whole sound set that shipped with Windows 95, 98, XP, and 7. Somewhere along the way browsers went quiet, and I always wanted that feedback back. The more I sat with the idea, though, the more I realized the people who would get the most out of it were not people like me. A screen reade…