By 苏剑林 | October 16, 2024
At the beginning of the year, in "A More Convenient Way to Open Cool Papers: Chrome Redirect Extension", we released a Chrome browser plugin (Cool Papers Redirector v0.1.0). It allows users to redirect to Cool Papers from any page via a right-click menu, making it easier to access Kimi's understanding of papers. A few days ago, we upgraded the plugin to v0.2.0 and successfully listed it on the Chrome Web Store, so I am here to share the news with everyone.
Compared to the old version v0.1.0, the main updates in the current version v0.2.0 are as follows:
1. Right-click menu jumps are now opened in a new tab;
2. Right-click menu supports accessing multiple paper IDs simultaneously;
3. Right-click menu supports PDF pages;
4. Right-click menu adds more paper sources (arXiv, OpenReview, ACL, IJCAI, PMLR);
5. Right-click menu falls back to site search (i.e., highlight-to-search) if no paper ID is found;
6. Shortcut jump links are inserted at appropriate positions on certain websites (arXiv, OpenReview, ACL).
Below is a detailed introduction to the updates.
The first five points of the update are all regarding the right-click menu, which is the core function of the Cool Papers extension. Its working logic is: sequentially check if the text selected by the user, the hyperlink, or the page path contains a paper ID. If it does, it redirects to the corresponding page on Cool Papers.
Version v0.1.0 was written when Cool Papers was first established and only supported identifying a single arXiv paper ID. Now, it supports identifying multiple paper IDs to be opened on the same page and supports five paper sources: arXiv, OpenReview, ACL, IJCAI, and PMLR (more will be added later; these were added first for convenience). Another critical improvement is that in previous versions, redirection was impossible on PDF pages. For example, if you visited an arXiv PDF like "https://arxiv.org/pdf/xxxx.xxxxx", you would find that "Redirect to Cool Papers" simply wouldn't appear in the right-click menu. This legacy issue from the old version has been resolved in the new version.
Finally, if no paper ID is detected in the selected text, hyperlink, or page path, the extension will directly use the selected text as a query and redirect to the Cool Papers internal search page. At this point, it functions as a highlight-to-search feature.
The final change is a newly introduced feature outside of the right-click menu. It inserts hyperlinks that point to Cool Papers at appropriate positions on certain pages. These pages include arXiv list pages, arXiv detail pages, the entire OpenReview site, and ACL detail pages. I hope this change does not affect your original browsing experience. If it causes any inconvenience, please let us know.
Shortcut links on arXiv list pages
Shortcut links on arXiv detail pages
Shortcut links on OpenReview
Shortcut links on ACL detail pages
This article summarizes the simple upgrade of the Cool Papers Redirector browser extension based on my own user experience. Everyone is welcome to test it. If you have more suggestions for improvement, please feel free to leave a comment.
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