External Application Launcher

External Application Launcher

Run any external application with custom arguments from the browser toolbar or context menu to send links, text and more

What is External Application Launcher?
External Application Launcher is a Chrome extension that enables you to define a toolbar button or create several context menu items to execute external applications with custom arguments directly from your browser. It extracts arguments from the current webpage and passes them along to the external application. Primarily used to send links, selected text, download links, image URLs, or link patterns to external applications such as browsers, text editors, email clients, download managers, or photo editors.
Stats
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.24 (42)
Version: 0.5.3 (Last updated: 2023-03-06)
Creation date: 2020-06-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • nativeMessaging
  • downloads
  • notifications
  • scripting
Size: 159.74K
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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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Pros
  • Customizable
  • Useful for power users
  • Works with multiple browsers
  • Works with various types of media
Cons
  • User-unfriendly installation process
  • Missing documentation
  • Issues after updates
Most mentioned
  • Customizable
  • Works great
  • User-unfriendly installation process
Recent reviews
by Vadim Shatalov Vadim Shatalov, 2023-12-27

I have added 10 apps - only 6 of them is shown in menu also no way to reorder apps?
by Deja Vu Deja Vu, 2023-08-28

Works great, And it's a fabulous idea btw!
by Mohd Waseem Mohd Waseem, 2023-08-22
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Safety
Risk impact

External Application Launcher is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

External Application Launcher has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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