Reviews & Comments of Save as Shortcut chrome extension
From November 29th, 2012 to January 28th, 2023, 63% user give 5-star rating, 20% user give 4-star rating, 10% user give 3-star rating, 7% user give 2-star rating. for Save as Shortcut chrome extension.
Reviews of save as shortcut:
Used to work good. Now when I save Chrome Web Pages to a folder, I'll go back in and click on the shortcut only to open on just the regular google homepage. Not the website. Oh well, anything good doesn't last forever.
Does whait it says, I would love it if it allowed me to select which ones
This is a great way to locally save links on Windows 11, which doesn't support drag and drop from the address bar anymore. Great job, dev!
An outstanding app. I never want to use my Chromebook without it.
nice
I've used this extension for quite a while, first with Chrome and now with Edge, and I've never had any problems with it. I'm so glad Save as Shortcut is available and still updated for those of us who prefer desktop shortcuts!
very good ,but has access to history.
Thanks for this extension, works great! Not sure if it's technically possible but since you said "Q: Can this extension be updated to do X? A: I'm open to ideas so feel free to contact me." I'll give it a try :) Would be great if you could add an option "Save as shortcut" to the context menu when you right-click on the tab. I'd personally prefer this rather than having an extra icon on the extension bar.
Just a wonderful extension. I use it several times a day and I never tire of it. And what a good idea to have added the forbidden characters ("* /: <>? \ |) as Unicode characters. Finally, link names like "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" are possible. Thank you very much and continue your excellent work.
WOW... saving urls as files in file system in better than any kind of bookmarking or web clipping that all these evernote and onenote fans all rave about... i just wish i had thought about this years ago and i probably didn't think about because html files saved in chrome using the save as menu only saves it as html files that are offline copies of the webpage; but this extension creates html files that load the online webpage. This is exactly what i wanted. Thank you so much sir/ma'am.
⌘U That is the shortcut that I have mapped to this indispensable and ingenious extension. Lived just two days without Save as Shortcut and felt the pain of not having this useful tool. Just tested the shortcut this morning and it works again! Thank you for giving the world such an essential tool for Google Chrome users, and thank you for your consiencience and diligent efforts to want to do good by your users. Ben FTW!!
I love this extension and have been using it on my Mac for years. I use preview (Quicklook) all the time for quick lookups. However, about 10% of the time the webloc file won't preview and wants to open in Safari instead of Chrome. Repeated attempts at creating a webloc usually does't help, but sometimes I can come back another day and successfully save it as a Chrome webloc (if I haven't already broken down and simply dragged the URL to create a shortcut). I switched to .html for a while, but soon realized I couldn't preview them. Is there anything that can be done about these occasional Safari weblocs?
This extension is insanely useful, especially under Linux!
Hi, Just excellent Extension. I use it each day and many time. I don't know if I can do that but sorry If I can't. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/savescreenshot/?src=recommended This extension is like your but, I really don't understand how he does that, it's not even necessary to see the scrolling window but his apps copy all (scrolling windows too) Don't know if you can modify your extension to do that. Sorry I have no money to give at this moment. Thanks for your great Extension !!!
Absolutely essential. My bookmarks are an absolute mess. I've been using this app to create a kind of dashboard folder on my desktop to sites I go to every day. Great app, hugely helpful
Super sweet! But what happened to shortcut? i could use cmd shift s to quick save using this extension. Somehow stopped last week :(
March 23, 2019 This is the extension I use most often, several times a day, and therefore the best. I like having a copy of the links I visit every day and I visit a lot. If one had to choose one and only one extension it would be this one. Thanks to the programmer of this wonderful extension!
How can I use it in "bilibili.com" ? It failed.
If you enable 'Ask where to save each file before downloading' in Chrome settings, you can choose where to save the shortcut. This also eliminates the harmful file warning.
Was working great but now it has stopped working.
good, works, simple
Must have when your browser doesn't support this natively.
I desperately want an extension to save a shortcut to a web page- this was a disappointment! 3 clicks on the extension and a click on 'this file may harm your computer'... I HATE THIS BABYSITTER POLICY CRAP! LET ME TURN IT OFF!
Does what it have to do.
I would love if it stores the page as a bookmark to , makes it easily searchable in chrome Also can you please add a keyboard shortcut option
This App saved me from going to another search engine and I really like Chrome. Chrome, please make this a part of the browser and save future users the misery I went through. If IE can get this right why can't you. Although it does take me two clicks, I love this app and I think it is the best I have tried.
I use an Ubuntu based os. This app does a fine job of saving the .desktop file. Chrome however does a bad job of opening the .desktop file. Chrome and Chromium, from my experience always re-downloads the shortcut, instead of opening the webpage. If this issue were solved I'd rate 5 stars. I realize that this is a greater Chrome based browser issue, and not that of this application.
I use this Invaluable extension umpteen times a day. As a Computer Tech I'm always adding to my collection of tools. So, I create a folder for a program. In the folder I keep the portable or setup executable. A PDF and a Text file that tells me everything about the program. And finally, i like to have a stand alone bookmark to find my way easily back to the program's webpage without having to search for it in my bazillion bookmarks in chrome.
Awesome!! I hated how I can't just save a page as a .url on Chrome but then I found this. Thank you guys.
Useful, does what it says on the label. Some more frills like renaming / custom destination would be nice. For people having problems with .url files in windows, see below. ==================== WINDOWS BUGFIX NOTE ==================== Bug: .url files open incorrectly in Chrome if it is not default system browser -- as plaintext, NOT as web links. Instead of a webpage, you will see the text: [InternetShortcut] URL=<your saved url> ==================== BACKGROUND ==================== In Windows, .url files open with "Internet Browser." This is an alias for your default system browser. If Chrome is not or cannot be set as default browser, opening a .url file in Chrome via "Open with..." will cause the browser to treat the file like any other miscellaneous filetype. ==================== NOT A FIX ==================== Assigning chrome as the new .url file handler without setting it as the default system browser will NOT fix the issue. ==================== BUGFIX ==================== Another Chrome extension has been made to fix this behavior. It's called ".URL Handler": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-handler/nhmccpjmdhejpfhafcfajkgifkmjhkgf "Allow access to file URLs" must be enabled for the extension under chrome://extensions/. With this extension enabled, Chrome can be manually assigned to handle .url files. ==================== ALSO AFFECTED ==================== Affected: Chromium / Opera / other Blink-based browsers. NOT affected: Firefox / other Gecko-based browsers. ==================== MORE INFORMATION ==================== See Chromium Issue 114871: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=114871
Had it about a month. Worked great at first. Tried to use it today (Sept. 7th 2015) - didn't work. (Recent Chrome update? Recent Windows 10 "System Restore"?) Uninstalled and reinstalled and it once again works great. Click it and it gathers the info, which can be edited, click save and you can choose where you want to save it. Just perfect. Thanks!
Love it and works unlike making a shortcut in chrome it opens in a web page when you click on the shortcut, and old review said you can't save to desktop but you now can when you get to the save button, took a little playing around to get it right but it's brill now.
Just what I needed. One simple step instead of many . Good idea well done !
Out-of-box simplicity
Lets me quickly make a name for it and save it somewhere. This saves the icon with it. Which is the reason I downloaded it.
Excellent saves in format of my choice and location of my choice. While it is browser specific to your default browser, you can overcome this if you have a simple free utility called "send to" installed. Simply add shortcuts for all your browsers and right click the saved shortcut to choose which one you want the shortcut to open in.
Three stars because it doesn't save WebPage icon. Would you implement this please?
Three stars instead of 5 because this needs an option to save the shortcut to my desktop, not the download folder in Windows 7.
Make browser nonspecific files, but definitely OS specific. I would prefer if it always created .url files instead of OS specific (.desktop on linux). Not sure that is really the fault of this extension though. We really need a standard URL/location file format.
Great tool, but it would be nice to be able to change the destination of the saved shortcuts. That way I can save them directly into my Dropbox folder on my local machine.
Works on Ubuntu Linux =]