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External Application Launcher

by yokris.dev

v0.6.0 Updated Jul 1, 2025 164KiB
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★ 4.33
43 reviews
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Description

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. Usage Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTOHWbX7dKU&feature=emb_title Installtion Video tutorial: Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18jAqTXBiZA Linux and Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB4Bj_APg4g
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Reviews (5 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-17
Ethan Cutshaw

Cannot figure out how to install the native client, followed instructions on video and just takes me to options page in chrome

★★☆☆☆2020-02-07
Willem Vanhulle

The installation process of the native client is very user unfriendly. Instead of just writing a description for each OS on this page, the maintainer of this extension forces you to follow several links to vague pages. Installation of the native client could take 5 seconds, but thanks to the vague description, it takes 5 minutes.

★★☆☆☆2019-10-14
Алексей Терещенков

After the last update, the item in the context menu disappeared

★★★☆☆2023-08-28
Deja Vu

it's not bad on 04.2025, given you order items (and keys) in export file and re-import! ))

★★★☆☆2021-03-27
Nguyen Tuyen

Group menu items is bad idea.

Permissions (9)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess downloads Can manage and monitor downloads nativeMessaging Can communicate with programs on your computer notifications Can show desktop notifications scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.6.0
Updated Jul 1, 2025
Size 164KiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026