What are the "Page Anywhere" extensions and how do they work?

These set of extensions are optimized to open a particular webpage like Wikipedia in an iframe for easy access and prevent multiple clicks to access the requested information. When a text is selected, you will get an icon on top of your selection. Clicking on this icon will load the external source in an iframe. To hide (destroy) the loaded iframe just click outside it. Note that to improve the loading speed mobile version of the web source is used. In oppose to the other similar extensions, there is no iframe creation on every page load. The iframe creation only occurs if the user requests the page load by clicking on the icon. So basically there is no added loading time to the page when the extension is not being used. Also, note that these extensions use non-persistent background script which means when the extension is not active there is no background memory or CPU usage at all.

Why do I see a loader on every new selection when iframe is called?

To prevent background usage of the external source, when the source page is hidden, the actual loaded iframe element is destroyed. So on a new page selection, a new iframe element is constructed and hence you will get the loader one more time. From version 0.1.2, I will have a plan to improve the loading by delaying the destroy event for a minute or so (still in the development phase). Note that since mobile version is used, the loading time should be negligible. If not, please report on the review section of this page

Can I use a keyboard shortcut to call the extension?

Currently there is no keyboard or right-click context menu support. I have a plan to add these two as alternatives to the icon mode.

What's new in this version?

Please check the Logs section.

Why does this extension requires "" permission (access all web pages)?

To be able to inject the iframe element in all web pages, this permission is a must have. Without this permission, your browser will not allow iframe injection.