Confluence Chrome/ FireFox Extension

This post briefly announces my Chrome/FireFox Extension for Confluence.

Updated 2026-05-08
 

Chrome Extension Recommendation: Turbo Outliner

I share in this post a nice Chrome Extension to display a dynamic Table of Contents on any page

Chrome New version 88

There is a new version 88 available for Chrome. 

I share here my main take-aways about the new version.

Chrome Customization: Ctlr+Tab to switch to last Tab

I was struggling to switch between two Tabs in Chrome, having opened many.

I share here my final solution.

Monitor web content

Frequently I want to watch a webpage i.e. be notified when a web page is updated.
Common use cases for example: get a notification when a software is updated (watch the changelog), be notified when a question (I haven't asked myself but I'm interested in its answer) in StackOverflow is updated, dedicatedly watch a page in HCL Connections (out of my overcluttered notifications feed), subscribe to a github commit feed etc.

I present here the best solutions I have found so far for this.

Chromy: Chrome Launcher Plugin

In this post I share a Chrome Plugin for a Launcher e.g. Executor (my preferred one), Launchy, Fluent Search or Listary.

(It is implemented in AutoHotkey but shared as small executable.)

How to create a shortcut to/ start an office 365 Standalone Web Application?

Introduction

Most of the office 365 applications can be accessed via the browser. You can browse to them via the waffle = open office.com.

Now for each application if you use Chrome as browser you can also create a shortcut to the web apps a bit less cluttered by the default browser menus and toolbar.

I explain here step-by-step how to do this.

Bookmarklet: Open Amazon book in Goodreads

Introduction I like before buying a book on Amazon to check the reviews on Goodreads. You can use a bookmarklet to do this in one click.

Goodreads offers one but it doesn't work. https://www.goodreads.com/user/edit?tab=widgets

Here is a working solution.

 

Good solution in Github

See https://gist.github.com/lightningdb/cfee260c3b7af7e65fce

javascript: var asin_elements, asin;asin_elements = document.getElementsByName('ASIN'); if (asin_elements.length == 0) { asin_elements = document.getElementsByName('ASIN.0'); };if (asin_elements.length == 0) { alert('Sorry, this doesn\'t appear to be an Amazon book page.'); }else { asin = asin_elements[0].value; if (asin.match(/\D/) === null) { var x = window.open('http://www.goodreads.com/review/isbn/'+ asin, 'add_review'); } else { var x = window.open('https://www.goodreads.com/search?q='+ asin); } x.focus();}

My solution

My solution used some regexp trick:

javascript: var array = document.URL.match(/amazon\..*?\/.*?\/([^\/\?]*)/); if (array == null) { alert('Sorry, this doesn\'t appear to be an Amazon book page.'); } else { var x = window.open('https://www.goodreads.com/search?q='+ array[1] + '&search_type=books'); x.focus(); }

Installation

Add a bookmark and paste the code in the URL