QOwnNotes Web Companion

This is a companion extension for QOwnNotes for managing your browser bookmarks in markdown files, saving webpages or taking screenshots.
What is QOwnNotes Web Companion?
QOwnNotes Web Companion is a Firefox add-on that works with QOwnNotes to manage bookmarks, save webpages, and take screenshots using markdown files. It allows you to create new notes from selected text or the content of webpages with the option to convert HTML to markdown and download images. The add-on also enables the creation of notes with screenshots of visible webpage sections.

Add-on stats

Users: 448 ▲ 1
Rating: 4.50 (10)
Version: 2024.8.0 (Last updated: 2024-08-13)
Creation date: 2019-01-08
Weekly download count: 10
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • bookmarks
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • *://*/*
  • <all_urls>
Size: 870.37K
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

This is a companion extension for QOwnNotes for managing your browser bookmarks in markdown files, saving webpages or taking screenshots.

QOwnNotes is the open source (GPL) plain-text file markdown note taking application for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud or Nextcloud.

To use this extension QOwnNotes needs to be running.

Features:

  • managing bookmarks with QOwnNotes notes
  • creating a new note (only text) from the current selection by right-clicking it (this is scriptable in QOwnNotes)
  • creating a new note from the content of the current webpage by right-clicking on the page (this is scriptable in QOwnNotes)
  • the html will be converted to markdown and images of the page will be downloaded (might take a while)
  • creating a new note with a screenshot of the visible part of the current webpage by right-clicking on the page
## Permissions
  • the extension uses the tabs permission that may be interpreted as permission to Read your browsing history to be able to store bookmarks for all open tabs in a window with a single click

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

QOwnNotes Web Companion is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install QOwnNotes Web Companion if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

QOwnNotes Web Companion is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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