Compare Chrome extensions: External Application Launcher vs Dark Reader

Stats External Application Launcher External Application Launcher Dark Reader Dark Reader
User count 5,000+ 5,000,000+
Average rating 4.24 4.70
Rating count 42 11,284
Last updated 2024-04-08 2024-04-15
Size 163.84K 726.02K
Version 0.5.4.1 4.9.83
Short description
Run any external application with custom arguments from the browser toolbar or context menu to send links, text and more Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.
Full summary

The "External Application Launcher" extension enables you to define a toolbar button or several context menu items to execute external executables right from your browser. It extracts arguments from the current web page and passes them as command-line arguments of your choice to the external application.

Use Cases:

  • You can send the current page to another browser
  • You can send selected text to a text editor
  • You can open your external email client and send selected text to it
  • You send download links to an external download manager!
  • You can directly send image URLs to a photo editor of your choice
  • You can browse links with specified patterns with an external application

Notes:

  1. A minimal native client is required for this extension to execute native commands. The native client uses the official NodeJS executable.
  2. The native client is only available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

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This eye-care extension enables night mode by creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors, making them high contrast and easy to read at night.

You can adjust the brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and the ignore-list.

We may ask you to support the development of the app with a donation. You may see news about Dark Reader in the settings popup. There are Developer Tools for experienced users.

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send users' data anywhere. It's fully open-source: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Before you install it, disable similar extensions. Enjoy watching!