Open Link With
Authors: Ibrahim Hamadeh, Cary Rowen, Belala Toufik
NVDA compatibility: 2018.3 and beyond
Download Version 2.9
This addon is used to extract links either from selected, clipboard, or last spoken text
display them in a list in a dialog
and give you the opportunity to open them with several browsers if found on your pc.
Usage
- First you have to assign a gestures for the addon through input gestures dialog.
- You can do that going to NVDA Menu/Preferences/Input Gestures/Openlink with category.
- There are three unassigned gestures there.
- A gesture to display links under selected text.
- A gesture to display link in clipboard text.
- A gesture to display link in last spoken text.
- Thus assigning a gesture, you have the option to get and display links, either from selected , clipboard or last spoken text.
- then press the shortcut of the addon, as you have chosen it
- if present, links will be displayed in a listbox in a dialog
- Choose the link, and press enter if you want to open it with the default browser.
- otherwise, tab to the browser you want to open it with, and hit enter.
- If there is only one link, you can choose to be opened directly with the default browser. this obtion can be adjusted in the settings panel.
- In the settings panel also, remember that you got the obtion to close the dialog, after activating a link.
Hyper link menu
Suppose you are in one browser and found a link, you like to open it with another browser.
or you are reading a message and in it a link, you wish to open it with a specific browser(not the default), what to do in this case?
Here comes the beautiful hyper link menu feature, press the gesture of hyper link menu(Alt+/), a menu will pop up giving you the option to open the link with several browsers on your machine.
Lot of times, while reading a message encounter a link to github, the browser I am logged in with it in github is Chrome, while my default browser is Firefox, and I need to open the link with Chrome to react with the issue of the link. Hyper link menu can help me now to go to github with the browser I am already logged in with it, even if it is not the default one.
Alt+/ is the default gesture, but you can always change it through NVDA menu/Preferences/Input gestures/Open link with.
Changes for 2.9
- Add hyper link menu feature, to give you the option to open the link with other browsers.
- Stand on a link, and press the gesture Alt+/
- A menu will pop up, giving you the option to open the link with other browsers on your machine.
- You can press escape to dismiss the menu, or enter on any of the browser to open the link right with it.
Changes for 2.8
- Updated add-on template.
- Update last tested version to 2023.1, to comply with latest addon api.
Changes for 2.7
- Now, You can extract the links from the text in last spoken.
- You can use the options in the settings panel to decide whether to open it directly with the default browser when there is only one link in text.
- Remove duplicates after extracting URL
Changes for 2.6
- Add Turkish translation for the addon.
Changes for 2.5
- Disable the addon in secure mode
- Update last tested version to 2022.1, to comply with latest addon api.
Changes for 2.4
- Now you have two unassigned gestures for the addon.
- One to display links under selected text, and the other to display links in clipboard text.
- Use latest addon template files
- Update manifest.ini for minimum and last version tested.
Changes for 2.2
- Ensures compatibility with python3.
Changes for 2.0
- Now we access the standard browsers from the registry, and not from C drive.
- Added a configuration settings dialog for the addon in preferences menu
So that we have the obtion to close the dialog after activating a link.
- Added Edge browser to browsers available if in windows10.
- Added settings panel to fit with NVDA2018.2 or later.
Changes for 1.0