[Mac OS X only] The easiest way to open a webpage in Helium or HeliumLift.

Latest Version

Version
1.6.3
Update
August 25, 2019
Size
38.7KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
4.05882 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (UK)
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Permissions
ContextMenus
Storage
Notifications
ActiveTab
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Open in Helium Extension

Helium and HeliumLift are both free apps for Mac OS X which allow you to open a webpage in an always-on-top floating window at your convenience. This extension is the best way to interact with these apps!

Simply click on the \"Open in Helium\" button in Chrome's toolbar to open the current page in Helium or HeliumLift.
By right-clicking on elements in a page you can also directly open hyperlinks, page frames or multimedia files!

Open in Helium has several tricks up its sleeve, such as the ability to autoplay YouTube links where you left off, open Twitch.tv streams in different styles with or without chat, and more! Tailor the extension to your liking in the options page. Your settings will sync to your Chrome profile. Best of all, Open in Helium does NOT have a persistent background page that will slow down your computer, or any special permissions!
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Source Manifest.json

{ "update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Open in Helium", "description": "[Mac OS X only] The easiest way to open a webpage in Helium or HeliumLift.", "version": "1.6.3.0", "browser_action": { "default_icon": { "19": "img/icon19.png", "38": "img/icon38.png" } }, "options_page": "html/options.html", "omnibox": { "keyword": "oih" }, "permissions": [ "contextMenus", "storage", "notifications", "activeTab" ], "background": { "persistent": false, "page": "html/background.html" }, "icons": { "128": "img/icon128.png", "256": "img/icon256.png" }, "version_name": "1.6.3"}
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User reviews

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Vol Herasymenko (ID: 00000090cfc1e699) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/14/2019 perfect

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Chancely “BeardDuder” Stater (ID: 000000dc0cbfb2fc) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/11/2019 Most recent chrome update broke what I was using before and this saved the day! Thanks Duder.

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Tim Z (ID: 0000008470ea584d) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/20/2019 Works great! Use it daily.

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William Xie (ID: 0000001cd90fab64) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 12/10/2018 Solution that I found through trial and error to get this to work: 1. Get this extension for chrome 2. Download Helium from App Store 3. Press the black arrow to on a youtube video page and it should launch it in Helium 4. If it doesn't, go to the URL on the youtube page and prepend `helium://` to it. It should open a new chrome tab asking for permission to open Helium app. Check the box to always allow. Then 3 should work. It worked for few of my macs but not the newest. Took a while to figure out why. Hope this helps. Note that the current version of Chrome also supports picture-in-picture natively but I find it way too resource hogging unlike Helium so this is still the optimal way to watch videos on the Mac.

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Havol Ekalian (ID: 000000450b98d524) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/27/2018 nice~ NOTE: download Helium from MacOS App Store first