QuickOWL

Quickly Open Web Links using custom contextmenu with selected text as input
What is QuickOWL?
QuickOWL is a Chrome browser extension that enables users to quickly open web links using a custom browser context menu. It is designed to simplify the process of searching for selected text on various web pages like Google Scholar, Wikipedia, bug tracking pages, or Google Translate.

Extension stats

By: Prasanna
Users: 144 ▲ 7
Version: 0.3.1 (Last updated: 2022-09-15)
Creation date: 2022-04-06
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • downloads
Size: 40.50K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
QuickOWL (v0.3.2)
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Extension summary

Chrome browser extension to quickly open web links, using custom browser contextmenu 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 named "Search with Google Scholar" the user need to add following details in QuickOWL: [Enter Display Name] -> Search Google Scholar [URL before selected text] -> https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=

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Extension safety

Risk impact

QuickOWL requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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