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.
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By: bprasanna
Users: 163 ▲ 3
Version: 0.3.2 (Last updated: 2022-12-16)
Creation date: 2022-05-06
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • downloads
Size: 40.87K

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# 9303 ▲ 8
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#1227 in Productivity ▲

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QuickOWL (v0.3.1)
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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:

  1. Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=)
  2. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=)
  3. Bug tracking page in work (https://jira.<orgdomain>.com/jira/browse/)
  4. 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.

Risk likelihood

QuickOWL has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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