What is External Application Launcher?
External Application Launcher is a productivity chrome extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 4,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.22 from 40 rated user, last update is 421 days ago.
What’s new in version 0.5.3?
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
How to install External Application Launcher?
You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.
Preview of External Application Launcher
Technical Features:
- Latest Version: 0.5.3
- Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
- License: Free
- Latest update: Sunday, March 5th, 2023
- Author: yokris.dev
External Application Launcher Available languages:
English.
FAQ
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What about others talk about external application launcher chrome extension?
69% user give 5-star rating, 13% user give 4-star rating, 6% user give 3-star rating, 6% user give 2-star rating, 6% user give 1-star rating. Read reviews of external application launcher
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How could i get help if there is something wrong with external application launcher chrome extension?
You could find more help information from external application launcher support page.
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How could i contact the developer of external application launcher chrome extension?
You could send emails to publisher, or check publisher's website.
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What are the required permissions for extensions?
- activeTab
- storage
- contextMenus
- nativeMessaging
- downloads
- notifications
- scripting
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
More about manifest_file of external application launcher.
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How could i report abuse of external application launcher chrome extension?
You could click to report abuse of external application launcher.
Reviews of external application launcher:
Needed an extension like this to open my external Twitch.tv player. Works great, saved a lot of headache.
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Exactly what I was looking for. I have a tool that lets me define what profile I want each url to open in. By sending the url to my app, it then re-opens the url in the correct browser and profile. LOVE THIS!