Open Link With

Authors: Ibrahim Hamadeh, Cary Rowen, Belala Toufik
NVDA compatibility: 2019.1 and beyond
Download Stable version 3.2.2

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.
  1. A gesture to display links under selected text.
  2. A gesture to display link in clipboard text.
  3. 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 3.2.1

• Add Russian localization and documentation, contributed by Kostenkov.

Changes for 3.2

• Update last tested version, so the addon now is compatible with NVDA 2024.1.

Changes for 3.1

• Enhance hyper link menu code, so now more links can be access and opened by this menu.

Changes for 3.0

• Fix the issue of gui.SettingsPanel, and get rid of warning messages in the log.
• Use github actions instead of apveyor to build the addon.

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

• Initial version.