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Select It makes it easy to open text-links and search Google on text-selection.

Install Select It Chrome Extension Gallery Try the Get Started page!

The main purpose of Select It is to provide Google Chrome users with the ability to use a keyboard shortcut to open selected text in a webpage, with the appropriated action. An action could be to open a webpage, open email client and open several selected links at the same time.

Select It is especially aimed for opening text-links – which can often be found on many forums around the web. To use it you just have to select the text-link and press your configured keyboard shortcut (default CTRL + F), and the webpage will be opened in a new tab (configurable too). As a bonus tip; in Chrome you may also right click and select “Go to google.com”. Another way is to drag the selected text and drop it on the tab bar. Use which ever way you feel the most comfortable with.

Selecting a text-link can be tedious and sometimes hard on certain web pages, which is why Select It provides the ability to double click the text-link and have it opened. This makes this process very quick!

For feature requests or bug reports, don’t hesitate to contact me through the contact form.

Features

  • Navigate to text-link by double-clicking it with your mouse.
  • Does not change the layout in any way of web pages you visit.
  • Select a text-link and press keyboard shortcut will navigate to it.
  • Select an email address and press keyboard shortcut will open the default mail client.
  • Selecting several text-links will open them all at once when you press the keyboard shortcut.
  • If the selected text is not an URL or an email address it will search it on a search engine.
  • Configurable search engines and keyboard shortcut.

Known issues:

  • “Close about:blank” option also closes Gmail links (use right menu – open link… instead)

Release Notes

Version Change Log
1.0.8

Double-clicking a text link opens it in a new tab.
1.0.7

Added option of automatically closing about:blank pages (user request).
1.0.6

It is now possible to open several URLs in one selection.