The Potential of Web Browser Bitcoin Mico Payment Plugin

[Bitcoin++]

A browser plugin for bitcoin payments would, I believe, open a revolutionary new field of micropayments. With one click you could make any payment of any amount, and practically speaking it would be used from $0.10 and above.

The plugin could find all bitcoin addresses on a page and make a link out of them. It could also search for nearby text to see if a payment amount is suggested. When clicked, a popup would appear, showing the payment amount and a click on the 'OK' payment would finalize the payment. This plugin would actually be a wallet on its own, and the user would only fill it with small amounts just to be safe (just as you don't carry too much cash with you on the street).

An obvious use would be for tip/donations but access to material would be just as common too. A newspaper has a premium article, fine, just pay 5,000 bits (5 mBTC). Bloggers could raise money needed to research a certain topic. When the accumulated donation reaches the threshold, he has funding for his project. I'm sure there are a million uses for micro-transactions that no one has even thought of yet.

Does such a plugin exists all ready?

[Light]

The big problem I have is having a plugin as your wallet. Browsers aren't exactly particularly safe and some users would no doubt fill it with all their coins because of their laziness and come complaining when they lost it all due to a scrutiny hole. Not to mention I don't see how difficult it is to open a client and send a payment if you wanted to. It just doesn't offer any advantages and has serious security issues that are necessary to consider.

[turvarya]

Wouldn't it be much easier to just have a link/file, that opens in your Wallet?
Like a PDF that opens directly in Acrobat Reader.

I also think, there is already something like that.

[securityguy]

There are lots of these now, some that come to mind are;

http://www.kryptokit.com/

Bitbrowser

http://www.sparecoins.io/