Hi.. I am interested in making a plugin but not sure if it can be done. I view alot of pages in my company and would like to highlight a piece of text and right cilck it and one of the options would be to send the text to a url and open it in another tab. Like double click the word "downloads" (to highlight) and right click, and have it open http://website.com/downloads, is this possible?

This should be possible with the Context Menus extensions API available starting in Chrome 6:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extens...textMenus.html

Its totally possible and nice and simple...

manifest.json

Code:

{
  "name": "GotoText",
  "description": "You know what it does.",
  "version": "1.0",
  "minimum_chrome_version": "6.0.4",
  "permissions": ["contextMenus","tabs","http://*/","https://*/"],
  "background_page": "background.html",
  "icons": { "16": "16.png",
           "48": "48.png",
          "128": "128.png" }
}

background.html

Code:

<script>
function GotoSelected(info, tab) {
var prefix='http://www.google.com.au/search?q=';
chrome.tabs.create({"url":prefix+info.selectionText , "selected":true});
};

var id = chrome.contextMenus.create({"title": "Goto...", "contexts":["selection"],"onclick": GotoSelected});
</script>