And that would be my first extension for Google Chrome/Chromium 🙂
as i’m have been using FireFox -and still using it- for a long time, getting used to double clicking text -non activated- links to be opened in another tab using the FireFox plugin Text Link so i don’t have to go into the process “Select” – “Ctrl + t”- “Ctrl + v” + Enter to navigate to that link
you just go and double click the plain link to open it in a new tab or an email to open the default mail client
Features are to be added in future updates God willing, so u should install it from the chrome extensions gallery to ease the updating process from here.
designs by Hend Abd El Mon3em.
Current Features, it Opens:
V1.0
1- Simple links in only one format (either it’s all bold, Italic,…, the same color, unformatted) https://test.com
2-Links surrounded by any combination of Spaces, Single Quotes, Double Quotes
3-http://, ftp://, https://, file:// links
4-Simple links with mixed formats, if it didn’t work just change the click position http://google.com
5-Simple links in the format xxx.xxx/xxx (i.e en.wikipedia.org/wiki , news.yahoo.com/s/ )
V1.1
1-links surrounded by brackets and comma [http://google.com], (http://google.com%5D ,https://google.com url(http://google.com/)
V1.2
1-homepage links without preceding “http://” or “www” e.g. example.com, google.com.eg
2-changed Icon
v1.5
1-added option to choose either the new tabs to be opened in the background or focused in a toolbar button.
v1.6
1-moved the option to the extensions options page
v2.0
1-added support for opening the default mail client on double clicking on a mail text like example@example.com
2-added the option to search Google for unmatched text, with the ability to disable that option from the options page
V2.1
1-Supported websites with frames
any comments are welcome 🙂
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Dec 18, 2009 @ 12:19:42
leh? ”Select” – “Ctrl + t”- “Ctrl + v” + Enter
tab momken ta3mel:
– Ctrl+Click
– or Mouse Middle click
😀
The extension would be good in taking care of the spaces though 😉
Dec 18, 2009 @ 12:22:24
ZIZO: i’m talking about non-activated links, like those in the post 😀
Dec 18, 2009 @ 23:45:48
Yeah, I got it … why don’t you just activate them :D?
BTW, I have rated ur extension on the gallery 😉
Dec 18, 2009 @ 23:48:06
hayeb2a shaklaha we7esh 😀 w 3shan yeb2a shaklaha saye3 😉
7abib alby ya Zizo (K) e3mel enta extension men hena wana ha5osh a rate-halak koll youm ;D
Dec 22, 2009 @ 00:00:49
V.Nice ya 3abdala 😀 …..we fekra 7elwa we mofeda 😀
Dec 22, 2009 @ 02:59:54
Thanks nice topic : )
Dec 22, 2009 @ 13:47:03
TeCNoYoTTa & Rehab, i’m glad u liked it 🙂
Dec 23, 2009 @ 21:41:51
very nice idea
thx ya abdallah 3ala al fakra 🙂
we al amda 3ala al sora 3agabtni bardo 😉
Dec 23, 2009 @ 22:05:04
Thanx 🙂
Jan 05, 2010 @ 21:33:25
the install link seems to not work anymore?
Jan 05, 2010 @ 22:49:46
i’ve just checked it now and it’s working properly
anyway here is it
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bfngfefjpkldmjdmblilkmoioeagenfi
Jan 06, 2010 @ 19:28:36
Very nice extension. Thanks a lot for your work.
Would it be possible to put the Linkit options onto the extensions page? Then the Linkit button on the tool bar could be avoided. Options will be used not very often anyway.
Jan 06, 2010 @ 20:39:08
i agree, and i’ll move it soon 🙂
Jan 12, 2010 @ 13:00:44
Good work, keep it up.
I noticed a typo at line 126
sWholeText=sSearhTerm;
Should be
sWholeText=sSearchTerm;
Jan 12, 2010 @ 13:38:23
ah i c, Thanx 🙂
Feb 02, 2010 @ 09:50:39
Can you make it switch to the newly opened tab automatically?
Feb 02, 2010 @ 09:52:25
Silly me! I didn’t notice the extension had options!
Mar 05, 2010 @ 20:48:15
Is it possible to change the way settings are stored,
as it doesn’t remember options after “clear browsing data”
and there’s other plugins that do … Thanks.
Mar 08, 2010 @ 12:35:15
ok, i’ll be working on that, just give me some time 🙂
Apr 12, 2010 @ 06:06:53
Great extensions
It is a must addon for me when I am using firefox
Nice to see a exactly same addon in chrome
I just installed, so didnt have a fully test on it.
I will leave comment again to let u know any problem!
Thanks!!
Sep 03, 2010 @ 07:17:07
wonderful extension!
maybe you could add ‘hxxp’ to the list of known protocols, and rewrite it to http before opening it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hxxp
or you could make it manually settable, as Text Link has it.
KUGW,
Sep 03, 2010 @ 07:20:42
Ok, u got that 😉
Thanx!
Sep 29, 2012 @ 10:06:37
Hi nice tool but it seams not to work if the website is using frame set… can you add this?
This might be related to the problem that chrome dose not show sourcecode of some frames… but in ff with the plugin text link it is working.
Oct 08, 2012 @ 07:50:52
Done Axel 🙂
Oct 08, 2014 @ 22:56:26
This line will crash if used on a text page …
if (sWholeText.length > 6)
but if you check whether sWholeText is valid that fixes it …
if (sWholeText && sWholeText.length > 6)
Oct 08, 2014 @ 23:11:21
Also wondering if this line is needed (for .xyz domains & others)
if (matchADomain(url.substring(lastDotIndex,url.length))) {…}
Maybe you could just allow anything that’s 3 or 4 long.
Oct 08, 2014 @ 23:17:45
Can I use your code for an extension for Opera, or do you want to release one for Opera ? 🙂
I’d like to modify the code a little bit, to remove background.html
and just use window.open(link) from .js as well as remove mailto:
Oct 09, 2014 @ 05:28:32
Thank you for your comments, will try to apply them,
and for the code modification for opera, sure you can, but mention me as the first author please. 🙂