Emily Browser Companion
Emily from An Enduring Spark lives in the corner of every browser tab. She cycles through observations on her beauty, her boyfriend Greg, online shopping, and the general state of those staring at her. Click her, ask anything — the chat panel uses your own free Groq API key to answer. She doesn't roleplay, she just lives in your browser while a regular LLM does the work.
Subscribe to receive Emily Companion
PART 01What you'll receive
A small browser extension (~7.4 MB) that injects a 180 px floating Emily into the corner of every page you load. She cycles through her sayings on her own cadence. Click her to open a chat panel powered by Groq's free LLM (your own API key, stored locally). Pick which corner she lives in from the popup settings, and blocklist any site where you don't want her.
PART 02How to install (after you receive the link)
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Open the welcome email and click the Download Emily Companion button. Unzip the file in your downloads folder — you'll end up with a folder called
emily-companion-v1. -
Open Chrome's extensions page. Paste
chrome://extensionsinto your URL bar, press Enter. Toggle Developer mode on (top right). -
Load the extension. Click Load unpacked, pick the
emily-companion-v1folder. Pin Emily to the toolbar via the 🧩 puzzle icon. Click the toolbar icon to set your Groq API key (free at console.groq.com/keys). Reload any tab. She appears.
PART 03FAQ
How is this different from the Dariah Browser Companion?
Same architecture, different character. Dariah is dry, observant, warm-with-trust. Emily is vain, charming, mildly condescending, talks about her hair. Both use your Groq API key (the same one works for both). Both run side by side without interfering.
Why is Emily subscriber-only?
She's a thank-you for joining the mailing list. The list is the most direct line of contact when the book ships and when we add new things to the world — Emily is a way to make signing up feel worth it on day one rather than just "promise of future emails".
Already subscribed before this existed?
Email NicholasDowbiggin@TheROWPress.com and Nick will send the link directly.
What browsers are supported?
Chromium-based desktop browsers: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera. Firefox needs a slightly different manifest format (planned). Safari does not currently support this extension format.
Does she phone home?
No. The only network call she makes is to Groq's API when YOU type in the chat panel. No analytics, no telemetry, no remote configuration. Permissions: storage (to remember your settings) plus access to api.groq.com (for the chat).