PowerToys Run: Browser Favorite plugin

This Repository is Forked from davidegiacometti/PowerToys-Run-EdgeFavorite for Brave.

It extends the functionality to allow for searching empty bookmark names and supports a list of browsers:

• Brave
• Edge
• Chrome
• FireFox
• WaterFox

Installation

• Download the latest release by selecting the architecture that matches your machine: x64 (more common) or ARM64
• Close PowerToys
• Extract the archive to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins or system-wide %ProgramFiles%\PowerToys\RunPlugins
• Open PowerToys

Usage

1. Open PowerToys Run (default shortcut is Alt+Space).
2. Type @ followed by the bookmark your searching.
3. Select a bookmark and it will open in your selected browser

Screenshots

Localization

There is no localization right now, but the plugin has relatively limited user-facing strings.

Future Plans

I don't have any plans to add new features to this plugin, there might be some bug fixes in the future or a new browser added. Feel free to open an issue or a pull request if you have any ideas or want to contribute.

Build

    powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass .\Build.ps1

For developing you can run the underlying powershell script to build the project and automatically copy the project to your power toys run plugins

    powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass  .\Dev-Build.ps1

Note

Script has to run with admin privileges

Tip

If you haven't installed powershell system-wide you might need to tweak some paths in Dev-Build.ps1 to fit your environment

Logs are saved in C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Logs\<PowerToys Version>\<CurrentDate>.txt If you build multiple versions and update the extension with the Dev-Build.ps1 script it sometimes happens that settings are mixed up and the extension won't work properly anymore. To fix this, remove the plugin entry in the settings.json located at C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run and restart PowerToys.

Contribution

Thanks to:

• eissar : Waterfox Browser source

Feel free to contribute to the project. Pull requests are welcome. Together we can build the perfect plugin

Attribution

This repository is a fork of octop162/PowerToys-Run-ChromeFavorite, which in turn is based on the original davidegiacometti/PowerToys-Run-EdgeFavorite.

A big thank you to both octop162 and davidegiacometti for their foundational work and contributions to the PowerToys community! 🙏