QuickOWL
Quickly Open Web Links using custom contextmenu with selected text as input
What is QuickOWL?
QuickOWL is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that enables users to open web links quickly using a custom context menu. Users can define their own context menu entries with selected text as input, making it easy to perform searches on websites like Google Scholar, Wikipedia, bug tracking pages, and Google Translate.
Add-on stats
By: bprasanna
Users: 223
Creation date: 2022-05-06
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
- contextMenus
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- downloads
Size: 40.87K
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
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Add-on summary
Quickly Open Web Links using custom contextmenu with selected text as input
Microsoft Edge browser extension to quickly open web links, using custom browser context menu defined by the user, with selected text as input.
Where QuickOWL can help: When we regularly copy text from different articles/pages in browser and paste in [ANOTHER_WEB_PAGE] and perform search.
Here [ANOTHER_WEB_PAGE] can be:
- Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=)
- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=)
- Bug tracking page in work (https://jira.<orgdomain>.com/jira/browse/)
- Google Translate (https://translate.google.com/?tl=en&text=)
In order to add custom context menu of "Search with Google Scholar" the user will be adding following two information in QuickOWL: [Enter Display Name] -> Search Google Scholar
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Risk impact
QuickOWL requires very minimum permissions.
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QuickOWL has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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