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Chrome can hold a page forever; it just cannot bring one back at a time. Latr adds the missing half — here is the Chrome-specific setup, from install to the shortcut to the one OS switch that silences notifications.
Setup
One click on the listing, no account, and the permissions ask for nothing beyond what a reminder needs — storage, alarms, notifications, and the active tab when you save one.
Chrome hides new extensions behind the puzzle-piece menu. Click it, then the pin beside Latr — the toolbar icon is also the badge that counts down to your next reminder, so it earns the spot.
That is the whole gesture. The page is filed at your default time and the tab can close. For a specific time, click the icon and type it in plain language — “tomorrow 9am”, “in 2 hours”.
Chrome's own switches
A browser extension borrows the browser's keyboard and the operating system's notifications. Both are configured outside the extension, and both are one-time.
AltShiftY
is only the suggestion. Chrome owns extension shortcuts: open
chrome://extensions/shortcuts, find Latr, and set any combination
you like. Latr reads the real binding back, so its own tips always show the
key you actually chose.
On Windows, Focus Assist can swallow Chrome's notifications silently; on macOS, Chrome needs notification permission in System Settings. If a reminder ever fires without a toast, it is almost always this switch — the two-minute fix, per system.
Running Brave, Vivaldi, Arc or Opera? Same store, same extension, same shortcuts page — every Chromium browser installs the same listing.
Questions
No. Chrome can hold a page — tab groups, the reading list, bookmarks — but nothing built into Chrome attaches a time to a tab or notifies you to come back. The closest native feature, the reading list, is a queue you have to remember to open. Putting an actual clock on a page needs an extension.
Yes. All of them are Chromium browsers and install extensions from the Chrome Web Store, so the same listing works unchanged. The keyboard shortcut, notifications, repeats and sync all behave the same. Edge users have a native listing on Microsoft’s own store, which skips a warning banner.
If you use Chrome sync, yes — reminders ride the browser’s own sync, so the laptop and the desktop see the same queue under the same Google profile you already use for bookmarks. No Latr account exists; the browser does the carrying, and Latr never sees your data.
Storage (to keep your reminders on your machine), alarms (to fire on time), notifications (to show the toast), and active-tab access (to read the title and address of a page at the moment you save it). It cannot read your browsing history and does not watch pages in the background. The bookmarks permission is optional and only requested if you use the bookmark import.
Almost always the operating system, not Chrome: Windows Focus Assist / Do Not Disturb, or macOS having notifications from Chrome switched off. The fix is a one-time OS setting — the step-by-step for both systems is in the docs, and Latr’s own missed-reminder banner in the popup tells you anything arrived while notifications were blocked.
Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device. About ten seconds to install, and one keystroke to use.
Also on Brave, Vivaldi, Arc and Opera — straight from the Chrome Web Store listing.
