Changelog

X shipped its own :shortcode: suggestions in September 2026, which is a compliment of sorts, except that typing :eye now opened X’s list and ours on top of each other. Backing off the one site this extension was built around was never an option, so instead it hides X’s list while its own menu is open, and only then. Mentions and hashtags share that same dropdown on X, and they are never touched.

• New A setting to hide X’s own emoji suggestions while the Emoji Anywhere menu is open. On by default; it lives in the extension options if you would rather see both
• Better Pressing Escape closes our menu without letting X’s list pop into the same spot. Theirs only comes back once the shortcode under the cursor is gone

A reader wrote in with a screenshot: they had typed a shortcode into a LinkedIn post and the menu was hiding behind the post window. Chasing that turned up two separate bugs wearing the same coat. The post box was a stacking problem, because browsers draw pop-up windows in a layer above the whole page and nothing can be stacked on top of it. The message popup was something else entirely: it is built as a sealed-off widget, and we were asking the page where the cursor was instead of asking the widget.

• Fixed The menu appears above LinkedIn’s post box and repost box instead of behind them. Comments were always fine, which is what made the bug so confusing to report
• Fixed Shortcodes work in LinkedIn’s message popup, the small chat window that sits in the corner of the homepage. It was reading the caret position from the wrong place, so it never saw what you had typed
• Better Both fixes are written against the browser feature rather than against LinkedIn, so they cover any site that puts a writing box in a pop-up window or a self-contained widget

It started with one missing character. Somebody pointed out that the X logo was not in the set, which was true, and looking for what else was missing turned into an audit. The symbol set goes from 277 to 365 in this release: ninety-two additions, and a few departures for characters that were secretly just emoji. Every new one has a page explaining what it is for.

• New 𝕏 for the X logo, typed with :xlogo:, :twitter: or :x_logo:. Unicode has no logo, so this is the double-struck X everybody uses instead
• New Superscripts and subscripts, all twenty-one: :sup2: for m², :sub2: for H₂O, and the raised n for xⁿ
• New Box drawing and block characters, so a README tree or a text progress bar can be typed rather than copied out of somebody else’s repo
• New The fractions that were missing, ⅔ ⅕ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞, plus ① through ⑩, ℝ ℕ ℤ ℚ ℂ, ♀ ♂ ⚧, the Japanese brackets and the media keys
• Better 92 new symbols in all, each with its own page on the site covering what it is for, what it gets mistaken for, and how to type it without us
• Fixed Symbols whose only shortcode collided with an emoji now carry their own, :sun_symbol:, :dagger_symbol:, :cat_kaomoji: and twenty-six friends, so the code a page teaches always types the character on the page
• Fixed A handful of entries that rendered identically to their emoji twins, the zodiac signs among them, are gone from the symbols tab. The emoji tab had them all along
• Fixed The popup search now matches shortcodes as well as names, so idk, tableflip and emdash find their characters instead of finding nothing

A user reported that Cloudflare kept rejecting them as a robot until they disabled the extension. They were right, and it was our fault: the extension loaded inside the challenge widget itself, and Cloudflare treats an uninvited script in there as tampering. 1.0.3 stays out.

• Fixed Cloudflare Turnstile checks pass again with the extension enabled. hCaptcha, reCAPTCHA and Arkose get the same treatment: their frames are now off limits to us
• Better Embedded frames like payment fields stay completely untouched until you actually type a shortcode in one

A user on X asked us to add recently used emojis. We read it twice, because they have been there since day one: that is what :: shows. If someone using the extension every day could not find them, the words were the bug. 1.0.2 fixes the words.

• Better The onboarding now calls :: what it is, your recently used emojis, most-used first. It used to say favourites, and nobody searches for favourites
• Better The welcome page now says what Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+E really opens: your recent emojis, right at the cursor

The stats page can now leave the browser: download the whole report as an image, or just the one chart you wanted. Plus a dark-mode fix worth apologising for.

• New Download your stats as a PNG: the full report, or any single section
• Fixed Settings and stats were white text on a white page in dark mode, which made them unreadable
• Better Checkboxes, dropdowns and scrollbars follow your system theme now

Emoji Anywhere is live on the Chrome Web Store. Everything needed to stop opening emoji pickers: inline shortcodes, a fast browser, and a stats page that tells you how much time it saved.

• New Available on the Chrome Web Store: one click to install, free, 280 KB
• New Type :name: in any text field to get an emoji suggestion menu
• New Close the colon, :fire:, and it converts instantly with no menu
• New :: brings up the emojis you use most, ranked by frequency
• New Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+E opens the picker right at your cursor
• New Emoticons convert as you type: <3 becomes ❤️, :D becomes 😄
• New Custom shortcodes: :gm: can expand to any emoji or text you like
• New 276 symbols and kaomoji, inline as :shrug, :tableflip, :arrow, :emdash
• New Toolbar picker with 1,906 emojis, search by name, shortcode or emoticon
• New Default skin tone, plus right-click any emoji for a one-off variant
• New Stats page: time saved, top emojis, category mix and a share card
• Better Suggestions stay off on Slack, Discord and GitHub, which have their own
• Better Per-site toggle, so you can switch it off anywhere it gets in the way
• Fixed X and Gmail no longer duplicate or drop the inserted emoji
• Fixed Custom shortcodes no longer garble the sentence around them on X
• Privacy No account, no servers, no analytics. Nothing leaves your browser.