Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by CGT IV on April 9, 2008 · permalink

Launchy 4.2.0

This extension does not appear to work as promised (tried using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 and Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6).

(i) It does not recognize a number of properly installed applications that it claims to be able to recognize;

(ii) it doesn't let me change the selected applications that appear as icons on the menu (other than to eliminate them);

(iii) it does not let you configure a program of your choosing (except by manually creating an xml file in your profile);

(iv) the profile/chrome/launchy.xml file as configured with the author's website also does not work, regardless of which type of application I put in, or how I write the path.

(v) There should be a "browse to" option under every known but unrecognized application; it's the simplest thing in the world.... but the author of this extension makes it so much harder than it has to be. As a result, the extension is useless.

The IE Tab extension lets me enter the path to an application of my choice, but I want a second one that opens in my mail client. How friggin hard is that? My installed mail clients are: Outlook, Netscape 4.8, Netscape 7.2, Messenger 9, Thunderbird 2, and Seamonkey 1.1; the only one it found was Outlook. Give me a break!