SLext

SLext enhances your editing experience on Overleaf by providing tabs, themes and more to the Overleaf website.

SLext: Enhance Your Overleaf Editing Experience

SLext is an open source ShareLatex/Overleaf extension that adds features like file tabs, custom color schemes, favorite tabs, and quick file open to improve your editing experience. It also allows you to set a main file for compilation, quickly close tabs, open files under cursor, and hide remote cursors and flags.

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Extension stats

By: slext-team

Users: 444

Rating: 4.85

(13)

Version: 1.8.1 (Last updated: 2025-03-04)

Creation date: 2020-02-24

Size: 438.27K

Email: sl*****@googlegroups.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 42,793 ▼ 241

Other rankings

#7627 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 65

Other platforms

Not available on Android

SLext (v1.8.1)

32 5.00

(3)

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Idyllic design
Amazing functionality
Features like adding tabs, search options and favorite tabs are very useful

Cons

The tabs do not save

Most mentioned

Improves ShareLatex online editor significantly
Buggy tab feature needing a fix
Greatly enhances user experience

User reviews

pretty good. hope the tab line can be narrower.

Xinyu Zhang, 2024-09-06

kvadratisk, praktisk, god

jens aagaard, 2018-04-18

It is a very useful extension for everyone using ShareLatex online editor. The tab feature makes the editor so much more functional, especially for large projects. There's but one small problem - the tabs don't save at the moment. However, it's only a bug that's hopefully going to get fixed soon.

Max, 2017-11-22

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Extension safety

Risk impact

SLext requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of SLext. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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