Compare Edge add-ons: Boomerang for Gmail vs Open in VLC™ media player

Stats Boomerang for Gmail Boomerang for Gmail Open in VLC™ media player Open in VLC™ media player
User count 206,258 91,668
Average rating 4.20 4.10
Rating count 10 27
Last updated 2024-04-10 2024-04-06
Size 2.20M 87.13K
Version 1.6.1 0.3.7
Short description
Meeting scheduling and email management tool trusted by millions. Schedule meetings, track responses, send later, and more. Send audio and video streams directly to the well-known VLC™ media player
Full summary

One-click calendar scheduling and email management for Gmail™. Boomerang saves you time so you can focus on what matters to you.

Why should you use Boomerang?

  • Meeting scheduling and email management tool for Gmail™
  • Trusted by millions of users all over the world
  • Security audit by Google - Google Premier Partner
  • SOC 2 Type 2 certified
  • Featured in The New York Times, Lifehacker, The Next Web, and more
  • Used by organizations like Lyft, Netflix, Twitter, and more

A calendar scheduling app and email productivity tool for Gmail™. You can schedule meetings right from your inbox, schedule emails to be sent later, track responses, set up recurring emails, and use AI to write better emails.

▣ What is Boomerang? ▣

Millions of Gmail™ and Google Workspace™ users count on Boomerang for easy, integrated calendar scheduling and email tools. One-click meeting scheduling that’s easier for everyone than a scheduling link and email tools help you keep your Inbox clean, without losing track of important messages. Plus, Boomerang is GDPR ready.

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Open in VLC media player extension, sends video and audio links to the well-known VLC media player. This way you can directly watch online streams in the VLC media player with just one click. To send these links to the VLC media player, right-click over the video or audio link and use the context menu item or use the browser action button. If the extension only grabs a single link, the link is opened in the player. If multiple links are detected, you will get a prompt box to select media links to be sent to the player.

Note: For this extension to work, you will need to install a minimal native-client application. Instruction on how to install the native client will be displayed once the extension is used. You can also watch installation instruction on the FAQs page

How to use this extension:

  1. The extension appends a context menu item to the browser context menu when the media element is the target.
  2. The toolbar icon becomes active (colorful) when a page is supported

As of version 0.2.0, there is a tool to join media files in a single media file. You can find this tool on the right-click context menu over the page action button. The output format of this tool is WAV. You can use VLC to convert this WAV file to any other audio format.

--- Legal VLC is a trademark of the VideoLAN organization. This extension is an independent project and has no relationship to the VLC team or VideoLAN organization.