Tabloaf — a pixel cat that lives in your browser

A small pixel cat lives at the bottom of the websites you open. It walks, sits, grooms, yawns, curls up like a loaf and falls asleep when you step away. Move the mouse back and forth over it to pet it; click it and it answers.

Carry it and let go above a picture, a heading or the edge of a box: it stays there and rides along when you scroll. Call the cat from the toolbar window and it runs to your pointer, then follows it for five seconds, jumping onto the picture, heading or table the pointer rests on.

About every 30 minutes of active browsing it brings a gift box: 8 hats, 6 neck pieces and 5 pairs of eyewear, one of each kind worn at a time. After 50 minutes without a 5-minute pause it brings a yarn ball to play with. After an hour a day of scrolling social feeds it lies across the feed until you pet it twice; the limit can be changed or the reminder turned off.

It taps its paw while you type but notices only that a key was pressed, never which one. It hides in full screen, can be hidden on one site or for an hour, and stays still in background tabs. 12 coats, five personalities and appearance details; a PNG card or GIF of your cat is made on your device. Works in Chrome, in Firefox and in Firefox for Android.

No ads, analytics, account or servers, and no network requests. One record with the cat, its settings and counters is kept in the browser on this device. 16 interface languages.

What does the cat do on websites?

It walks along the bottom of the page, naps, purrs when you pet it with the mouse and taps its paw while you type. Let it go above a picture or a heading and it stays there; Call the cat makes it follow your pointer for five seconds.

Does it read what I type or which sites I visit?

No. It notices only that a key was pressed, never which one, and keeps no history. No network requests, analytics or account; one record with the cat and settings stays in the browser.

Which browsers does it support, and what does it cost?

Free, with no ads or subscription. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tabloaf/ · Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ijikdbodagfbiepidbnngcpaabephnob.