External Application Launcher

Productivity

Version: 0.5.3

Last Update: 2023-03-05

Rating

40 ratings

Total Installs

4,000+

User Reviews


Dave Brenner 2019-07-29 This extension is not for everyone; let's be clear about that. This extension is for power users. But if you are a member of that group, this extension will give you the ability to essentially create your own extensions. For me, that means custom shortcut menu items to do things that other extensions just don't do or for which I don't want to install a separate extension. Some examples: • An email address appears in text on a web page, but it's not clickable. With this extension, I was able to create a right-click action that passes a selected plain-text address to Thunderbird as the recipient address in a new window, as such: Executable Name: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe Arguments: -compose "to='[SELECTIONTEXT]',from='[email protected]'" • Someone says, "follow user name on Twitter", but they don't include a link: Executable Name: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe Arguments: --profile-directory=Default https://www.twitter.com/[SELECTIONTEXT] * note the inclusion of the "profile-directory" argument so that I don't open the page in my work browser, which is often running and has a work-related Twitter session by default. • Sometimes (but rarely) I want to open a link in classic Edge: Executable Name: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe Arguments: /k start microsoft-edge:[HREF] • Or maybe Chromium Edge: Executable Name: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe Arguments: [HREF] If you need this sort of functionality, this is the extension for you. Thanks to the developer for his work on this. I will be donating today.
Jacob 2018-10-05 Very useful extension for me. Mostly using it to open YouTube videos in mpsyt. Works well, intuitive, but not 5 stars because adding runners requires a PNG icon.
Ethan Cutshaw 2018-09-17 Cannot figure out how to install the native client, followed instructions on video and just takes me to options page in chrome
aldrin luchavez 2018-07-13 success.
Anant Mishra 2017-10-03 dev is active and responsive, extension works well.
Ahmed Samir 2017-09-28 i can open idm on playonlinux with href argument but i have to copy paste the link by myself everytime, isnt there's a way you make it more compatible with idm on playonlinux? it would be awesome, make an option for it to replace chrome's download manager, and when there's a download start the excitable " playonlinux idm" with the download link. best wishes
Alexander Kartavenko 2017-06-19 Cool! Thanks for the great extension it is exactly what I needed.
Mathieu Bélanger 2017-02-04 Seemed promising, your individual extensions work easily (for Firefox, etc.). Only opens blank pages in other browsers, this one. The step for the native client never showed up, I had to use the Firefox extension to get it (it's the same: chrome-extension://bifmfjgpgndemajpeeoiopbeilbaifdo/data/helper/index.html# ). Edit 1 (Answer to Google A. User) Arguments, I guess. Do you have documentation? All I saw was a brief example. I had installed this one first, thinking it would solve everything, so I had to play around to find this workaround... Edit 2 I got the correct ARGUMENT from the Reviews page of the creator's website (thanks): "Argument should be just [HREF]. Make sure the path to Firefox executable is also correct." It's working, marvellous! Edit 3 The native client has been updated promptly, fixing a minor bug. Working great here. And there is now an uninstall option for this client. I use it to open in many browsers with just one extension (and in VLC too for YouTube), but I guess you could use it with many other programs depending on what you wanna do. Works in Opera and Vivaldi steadily too. Nice. If you need the updated client, 0.2.3: https://github.com/andy-portmen/native-client/releases/tag/0.2.3
qun lin 2017-01-17 神奇 awesome
Nigel Thorne 2022-06-07 Exactly what I was looking for. I have a tool that lets me define what profile I want each url to open in. By sending the url to my app, it then re-opens the url in the correct browser and profile. LOVE THIS!

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