QuickOWL

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= Once added, select a text from any page in Chrome browser and right click, the user can see "QuickOWL -> Search Google Scholar" context menu. If no text is selected QuickOWL context menu won't be displayed. So, the requirement is to select a text to activate QuickOWL custom context menu. Following sample data can be downloaded, and imported into QuickOWL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ab5pqjy4vgymDDlM3QgE1bfx7t8W8S2u/view?usp=sharing Why yet another custom context menu search extension? 1. QuickOWL uses manifest v3 guidelines of Chrome Extension development, which means it has longer shelf life 2. Uses least amount of privileges required: 2.1. storage - required to store the user defined context menu URLs 2.2. unlimitedStorage - to allow cumulative storage for the extension to expand beyond 5MB 2.3. contextMenus - required to add custom user defined URL entries in Chrome's context menu 2.4. downloads - required to export current list of user defined URLs for the extension as .txt file 3. Provides necessary alert messages to user to make it easy for the user to understand what is working and what is not 4. Provides simplified Extension Options page to manage addition/deletion of custom context menu URLs 5. Light weight by design, the Options page of extension uses only the required html & javascript to achieve the tasks. No heavy weight third party library is being imported. It's developed in pure HTML, CSS & Javascript. 6. Features detailed Help page to make it easy to understand about the functionality of the extension Privacy: 1. Though after installing the Permissions in Extension page says "Read your browsing history", it doesn't actually do any reading of browsing history. The extension focuses on sending the selected text to the user defined context menu URLs. No extra reading, no background activities. 2. Currently the extension supports storage locally (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/storage/#property-local) in browser, there is no option to sync the data across chrome browsers (using Google account). One of the main intentions behind this is: to keep the user data local, even by mistake the data should not be synced in Google. Release 0.3.8 1. Refreshed options.html with a cleaner QuickOWL layout, header, panels, buttons, icons, table styling, and responsive behaviour. 2. Added QuickOWL title icon in Options and Popup, fixed to dark icon because those headers use light backgrounds. 3. Added intuitive button icons for Save Changes, Show Help, Export URLs, Import URLs, Add URL, Add Separator, and Delete Selected URL(s). 4. "Show Help" button now dynamically changes to "Hide Help" when help is visible. 5. Added a dedicated "QuickOWL Settings" section below the saved URL table and above Help. 6. Added adaptive toolbar icons that remain visible on both light and dark Chrome toolbar backgrounds. 7. Updated Help and About text, including examples for "Ask ChatGPT" and "Ask Codex". 8. Fixed "&" being saved/displayed as "&amp;", which broke URL opening from the context menu. 9. Fixed "<br>" being inserted into "URL after Selected Text". 10. Fixed URL table checkbox alignment, including rows with long URLs. 11. Fixed old-styled Number validation warning popup; it now uses the newer QuickOWL alert styling. 12. Added app protocol URL support such as "codex://". 13. Fixed bare app launcher URLs such as "codex://" so they open as-is instead of appending selected text. 14. Added "offscreen" permission for system theme detection used by the `Follow system` toolbar icon mode. Existing permissions retained: contextMenus, storage, unlimitedStorage, downloads. Release 0.3.1 1. Fixed bug in validation during save changes 2. Replaced <hr> with ################ as separator to avoid javascript error during drag and drop, this occurs because <hr> parent element is body itself, which causes problems 3. Added more instructions in help section for Add Separator Release 0.3.0 1. Fixed issue in missing options.js error causing the breakage of the extension Release 0.2.9 1. Support for adding separator to easily group options in QuickOWL contextmenu 2. Added little writeup for Add URL & Add Separator in Help section 3. Added basic validation for URL before selected text Release 0.2.8 1. Updated the .csv based file export & import to use .txt format, because the .csv file exported with separator as pipe symbol | gets updated to use comma , when edited in .csv editors (like Microsoft Excel). Once the .csv file separator gets updated to comma, further import from that .csv file fails. So, now the .txt format has been made as defacto format for export and import. 2. Help section has been updated about the usage of .txt file instead of .csv file 3. An example on sample data of .txt file with separator as pipe | symbol has been added in Import URLs section 4. Font size has been updated to use 1 rem instead of 14px 5. Font family has been updated to use system fonts, based on an article from Hacker News (https://systemfontstack.com/) 6. Extension title summary has been enhanced to refer to multiple web links 7. Added a note on "Save Changes" button usage in case of …