Present HN: Browser extension to rapidly launch/add bookmarks through key phrases love a CLI

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Present HN: Browser extension to rapidly launch/add bookmarks through key phrases love a CLI

The Omnibookmarks browser extension is the fastest manner to launch bookmarks. Merely sort a keyword into the contend with bar to rapidly launch or add a bookmark:

opening a bookmark

Rating Omnibookmarks from the Chrome Web Store or the FireFox Add-Ons field.

Advantages

⚡️ Lightning posthaste

📖 Saves to the browser’s constructed-in bookmarks folder

🔐 Originate offer, with clear-chop offer code that is easy to audit and belief

Utilization

First, set off Omnibookmarks by typing the letter “b” into the contend with bar, followed by a keep:

activating Omnibookmarks

Together with a bookmark

To add a bookmark for the most up-to-date page, sort “+” followed by the keyword you will want to build it, and press Enter:

adding a bookmark

Opening a bookmark

To launch a bookmark you previously added, sort its keyword and press Enter:

opening a bookmark

Eradicating a bookmark

To snatch away a bookmark you previously added, sort “-” followed by its keyword, and press Enter:

removing a bookmark

Viewing all bookmarks

Omnibookmarks saves pages to a bookmarks folder named “Omnibookmarks”. This folder is positioned in “Diversified Bookmarks” by default, but you might perchance doubtless pass it to a undeniable location at the same time as you will want to.

Supported browsers

Omnibookmarks helps most desktop browsers:

Omnibookmarks doesn’t give a resolve on to the next browsers:

  • Safari (doesn’t give a resolve on to omnibox)
  • Cell browsers
  • Legacy Edge (v18 and older)

Development

To develop a liberate for Chromium-primarily based fully browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera):

# Creates a liberate at dist/omnibookmarks-chromium
./scripts/equipment-chromium.sh

To develop a liberate for FireFox:

# Creates a liberate at dist/omnibookmarks-firefox
./scripts/equipment-firefox.sh

Inspiration

Omnibookmarks is heavily impressed by Hashmem, an extension that will not be any longer obtainable. Hashmem equipped the same ability for saving and opening URLs, but it had a total lot of essential drawbacks:

  • Removed from the Chrome Web Store for an unnamed coverage violation and turned into once additionally unavailable for FireFox.
  • Required granting the extension permission to ship HTTP requests to a total lot of URLs controlled by the creator.
  • No longer launch offer, and its JavaScript recordsdata were obfuscated.
  • Saved bookmarks the consume of the extension storage API as an different of saving them to the browser’s constructed-in bookmarks database.

So, Omnibookmarks seeks to present another option to Hashmem without these drawbacks.

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