Extend Internet Explorer context-menu
The right-click popup-menu in Internet Explorer (IE) can be extended to provide even more useful actions than it has already. Extensions are added through the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \MenuExt \My Extension]
(Default) = “C:\MyExtension.html”
Contexts = 34
The (Default)-value specifies what command to execute when the extension is activated. The command must be implemented via a HTML-file, and if one don’t like having the HTML-file placed in the root of the C-Drive, then one can just move it to another place like C:\Windows\Web.
The Contexts-value specifies in what context the extension should be shown, and is a bit mask consisting of the logical OR of the following values:
- Default = 0x1
- Images = 0x2
- Controls = 0x4
- Tables = 0x8
- Text selection = 0x10
- Anchor/Link = 0x20
Add option to see Google Cache’s version of link
- Add these settings to the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \MenuExt \Google Cache]
(Default) = “C:\GoogleCache.html”
Contexts = 32 - Create a text-file named C:\GoogleCache.html with the following contents:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>
var aDestination = “http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:”
var aWindow = window.external.menuArguments;
var aDocument = aWindow.document;
var anEvent = aDocument.parentWindow.event;
var aLink = anEvent.srcElement;
aWindow.open(aDestination + aLink);
</SCRIPT>
Add option to submit text-selection to a search-engine/dictionary
- Add these settings to the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \MenuExt \Google Search]
(Default) = “C:\GoogleSearch.html”
Contexts = 16 - Create a text-file named C:\GoogleSearch.html with the following contents:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>
var aDestination = “http://www.google.dk/search?q=”
var aWindow = window.external.menuArguments;
var aDocument = aWindow.document;
var aText = aDocument.selection.createRange().text;
aWindow.open(aDestination + aText);
</SCRIPT>
Add option to submit a page for translation
- Add these settings to the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \MenuExt \Google Translate]
(Default) = “C:\GoogleTranslate.html”
Contexts = 1 - Create a text-file named C:\GoogleTranslate.html with the following contents:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>
var aDestination = “http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=”
var aWindow = window.external.menuArguments;
aWindow.open(aDestination + external.menuArguments.document.URL);
</SCRIPT>
More info MS KB177241
More info MSDN: About the Browser
More info MSDN: Browser Extensions
More info MSDN: menuArguments Property
Credits Laurent Girod