Install the BurnTest Recorder (Chrome)

The BurnTest Recorder is a free Chrome extension that records the site's tab in one click — the site's sound and your voice, no share dialog, on every site (including ones that block embedding). The BurnTest Recorder for Chrome card on your reviewer home, the burns list and every burn page shows whether it's installed.

1. Install

1. 1Click Install for Chrome on the card (it opens the Chrome Web Store listing) and choose Add to Chrome.
2. 2That's it. The Recorder brings you straight back to your burn, and the page flips to Installed ✓ by itself — no refresh. Make sure you're signed in to burntest.io in that same Chrome profile; the extension uploads with your session.
3. 3Pinning is optional: the Recorder shows you where the flame is when you need it. To pin anyway, click the puzzle-piece icon at the right of Chrome's toolbar and press the pin next to BurnTest Recorder.

2. Press Start on a burn

Open a burn you've claimed, read the brief, then press Start recording. The Recorder opens the site in a new tab and its flame in the toolbar blinks REC?. (It can't draw anything on the site before you click — no website gets touched until you invoke the Recorder on it.) If the flame isn't pinned, the burn page shows a one-time Pin the BurnTest flame first step and updates by itself once you've pinned it.

3. Click the flame once — talk — press Stop

1. 1Click the flame in the toolbar or press Alt+Shift+B — recording starts on that click. Chrome requires that one click from you — no website is allowed to start a recording on its own. Allow the microphone the first time Chrome asks.
2. 2Use the site and say everything you think. From your click on, a small recorder pill at the top right of the site shows the timer, the 2:00 minimum, a mic meter and Stop; drag it anywhere.
3. 3Press Stop. The recording uploads on its own and your burn page jumps to the Notes step with it attached — no refresh. Write your notes and submit.

Troubleshooting

• No flame icon in the toolbar — it isn't pinned. Click the puzzle-piece icon → pin BurnTest Recorder (the burn page shows this step with a picture), or just press Alt+Shift+B.
• The page still says it isn't installed / the share picker still appears — the burn page checks for the extension every couple of seconds and when you come back to its tab, so this usually means the extension is off: open chrome://extensions, check BurnTest Recorder is on, then sign out of burntest.io and back in; the page only talks to the extension on https://burntest.io.
• Nothing happens on the site's tab — the burn isn't armed. Go back to the burn page and press Start recording again.
• Brave — installs from the Chrome Web Store like Chrome. Brave Shields can block the page ↔ extension handshake: click the lion icon on burntest.io and turn Shields down for this site.
• Edge — open the Chrome Web Store listing in Edge, allow extensions from other stores when it asks, then Get. Everything else is identical.
• Firefox / Safari — not supported; use the in-browser recorder on the burn page (Chrome's share dialog) or record on your phone.
• Upload failed — the extension keeps the recording and retries. If the burn page never receives it, contact support with the burn number.
• Uninstalled it by mistake? Install it again from the card; nothing else to set up.

It records only when you start it on a burn, only the tab you clicked it on, and only while the pill's timer runs. What it collects and why is in the extension privacy policy.