Compare Chrome extensions: MarkView vs gLinks

Stats MarkView MarkView gLinks gLinks
User count 3,000+ 20,000+
Average rating 4.02 3.10
Rating count 58 235
Last updated 2019-03-08 2023-04-25
Size 778.24K 9.10K
Version 2.6.5 0.0.0.2
Short description
View markdown file in Chrome. read urls, links and more
Full summary

MarkView support Github Flavored Markdown, such as table, task list and so on. MarkView also provides table of content for document, fully customizable document and code view styling, and much more.

User can use emoji in MarkView! Emoji usage: use alias ":smile:" or shortcut ":D" in Markdown file to represent "smile icon". Please check with MarkView Editor to play with it. The mapping table is here https://markview.bitbucket.io/icons/

MarkView support footnote, superscript, subscript, mark, insert and more. Please play with MarkView Editor to see those actions.

Post installation:

  1. You need to select "Allow access to file URLs" to access local files.
  2. You need to click "options" link to go to option page which is located in chrome-extension://iaddkimmopgchbbnmfmdcophmlnghkim/options.html

keyword: markdown

With this extension, you can create and open *.url, *.webloc and *.glink files directly from your Google Drive. Keep your files and links/bookmarks all together in your Google Drive.


Update on August 2014: solves issues caused by Google's Picker API update.