Reviews for Open With
Open With by Geoff Lankow
Review by Philip Goddard
Rated 5 out of 5
by Philip Goddard, 7 years agoOpen With saves me a whole lot of hassle. Some sites don't work properly in FF, so, using Open With I can quickly load the current page in Chrome or (perish the thought!) Edge. But still more useful and indeed important for me is that I can quickly load the current page in BlueGriffon, my web page editor, or in EditPad Pro. I use both these latter for working on my local version of my extensive five websites. Saves a huge amount of hassle!
One odd thing. Just lately, the toolbar icon for Open With has taken to repeatedly giving a warning message, that Open With couldn't make contact with the outside world (presumably meaning it couldn't make an Internet connection). But its permissions don't include being able to do so, so something is clearly screwy about this.
As another reviewer has remarked, it would be greatly helpful to have a facility for exporting / importing one's settings.
Update:
I found that this extension had ceased working, and presumably this was associated with the error message noted above. I followed a reasonable hunch and re-ran "[path]open_with_windows.py install", and that fixed it.
One odd thing. Just lately, the toolbar icon for Open With has taken to repeatedly giving a warning message, that Open With couldn't make contact with the outside world (presumably meaning it couldn't make an Internet connection). But its permissions don't include being able to do so, so something is clearly screwy about this.
As another reviewer has remarked, it would be greatly helpful to have a facility for exporting / importing one's settings.
Update:
I found that this extension had ceased working, and presumably this was associated with the error message noted above. I followed a reasonable hunch and re-ran "[path]open_with_windows.py install", and that fixed it.
183 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fenrir, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by EbenieAmaazon, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17391463, a year agoSeveral years ago the developer stopped supporting his plugins to focus on Thunderbird. I hope he isn't the one responsible for how bad Thunderbird is now, because if so he should have stuck to plugins.
- Rated 5 out of 5by sadfvgbnm, a year ago>3. Open a command prompt. Run the file with the argument "install", like this:
>open_with_windows.py install
>If you move the file, you must run this step again.
Note for the noobs like me: The command should be:
python open_with_windows.py install - Rated 5 out of 5by Vietz, a year agoWorks well, just follow the installation instruction (native client)
- Rated 4 out of 5by VILYAM, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by kakaze, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16920239, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Majid_KSA, 3 years agoUsed to be one of my favorite addons. Did not use it for a long time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Afzal, 3 years agoDiscontinued by developer, so move onto something else. And it no longer works, and no point in trying to find out why.
- Rated 1 out of 5by J007, 3 years agoAs noted in the "About this extension" section and on the Github repo, this is no longer maintained as of 2022. Further, it doesn't seem to work for many people. For myself, it doesn't work on an m2 mac with Firefox 114.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16666464, 3 years agoCould not get the extension to work. No debug codes were given in the firefox browser console, python console or CMD console
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14068407, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ycatch, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DimTim, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Onurtag, 3 years agoThe addon is now archived (no more updates).
If it breaks in the future try the following alternative addon:
External Application Button
(by Andy Portmen) - Rated 3 out of 5by nplee, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12900474, 3 years agoI heard that the "Open With" developer no longer maintains the extension (I hope that some developer continues to update and maintain the extension, as it is very useful to open YT-DLP and video players such as MPV, PotPlayer, VLC and MPC- HC)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15569604, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 11246114, 3 years agoA great app! Has somebody found a way to use it with Snap Firefox?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16323835, 3 years ago