As you may have noticed, Chrome for Windows does not natively support emoji, so you end up seeing boxes where users of other browsers or operating systems may see more descriptive icons.

For this reason, Chromoji was developed, and the great thing about it was that you could set it to use a "native font" instead of graphical emojis (which is what most "emoji extensions" were aiming at); unfortunately, a recent version of Chromoji started displaying ads without letting its existing users know, so it was removed from the Chrome Web Store.

It's still possible to obtain the original Chromoji somehow and install it...except if you're using the Stable or Beta versions of Chrome for Windows, which disable all extensions that had not been installed from the Web Store (I know, the best guide to doing this is on a terribly stereotypical Tumblr page): http://datethatcat.com/post/105302507420/chromoji-removed-from-web-store-heres-how-to

A while after that, I decided that I'd pull out the extension files (because I still had Chromoji installed), losslessly optimize all images, remove the ads, make it use textual emoji by default, and call it "Chromoji Legacy"; I'd like to have people test this extension before it goes live, and I'll also be waiting on word from the developer of Chromoji, but if you want to be a tester on my Chrome Web Store Developer Account, send me a message with the e-mail address that you use for your Google Account (I can only have up to 20 tester accounts).

Much like the original extension, I decided to use an emoji as the icon, but because I'm lazy, I used Microsoft's Segoe UI Emoji, which show up by default in Paint.NET on Windows 8; most of the colored emoji don't look good against the toolbar background, but for now I'm using the "Blue Book" emoji, a blue version of the "Closed Book" displayed in my hastily slapped-together logo above: 📘

[Edited on March 8, 2015 at 12:27 AM. Reason : I just noticed a mistake I made editing the logo, moving the "Controller" emoji a little left.

3/8/2015 12:23:16 AM

Okay, according to the developer of Chromoji, a new version will be released in a couple weeks, so I'll wait to see whether he actually does it before publishing this fork.

[Edited on March 8, 2015 at 1:20 PM. Reason : I'm surprised he didn't just retire the locomojis (at) gmail (dot) com e-mail address.

3/8/2015 1:19:16 PM

i'm not a 14 year old girl, this this thread is not relevant to my interests

3/9/2015 12:26:53 PM

i'm not a 14 year old girl, this this thread is not relevant to my interests

3/9/2015 1:30:12 PM

This thread was made by lewisje, it's not relevant to 99.999% of anyone's interests.

3/9/2015 3:33:42 PM

did anyone actually notice this?

3/9/2015 4:21:14 PM

If you're asking if anyone ever noticed that Chrome doesn't display emojis, I have. But I always thought that was a feature.

3/10/2015 3:32:12 AM

New name, no fancy logo, now a UserScript: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/8598-emoji-polyfill

3/17/2015 8:16:19 PM

It's live on the Web Store, GO GO GO GO GO: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emoji-polyfill/kaplhmhahkanhjahbdbaamdaililfmkj

3/25/2015 8:38:14 AM

and just about three weeks after launch, I'm about to retire it, because Chrome 42 supports emoji fallback natively on Windows.

4/14/2015 7:22:06 PM

The "Information Desk Person" emoji is now as sassy on Windows 10 as she is in iOS and on Twitter: https://i.imgur.com/kS6kXKK.png

4/30/2015 12:54:03 AM