Right-click menu

TabOasis adds a single item to Chrome’s right-click menu: Save to TabOasis. It appears when you right-click a page, and when you right-click a link.

What it does

It does not save anything on its own. It captures the URL and a title, then opens the popup on the Quick Add tab with both fields already filled in. You still choose the column and press Add Bookmark.

If you dismiss the popup without pressing Add, the capture is discarded.

When the popup does not appear

Chrome will not always let an extension open its popup. When that happens you get a notification instead:

“title” saved — click the TabOasis icon to finish adding it.

Click the icon and the Quick Add tab opens with the capture still waiting.

The capture is kept for 15 minutes, and only one at a time: a second right-click replaces the first.

On a link, check the title before you press Add

Right-clicking a link captures that link’s URL, and the link’s own text as the title. TabOasis cannot read that text on an image or icon link, a link inside an embedded frame, or a page Chrome does not let extensions into, such as chrome:// or the PDF viewer. There the title falls back to whatever you had selected on the page, then to the link’s hostname, and finally to the raw URL.

The title box is editable and sits right there in the form. Read it before you press Add.

Right-clicking a page with no title at all captures it as Untitled.

What it captures

The URL and the title, nothing else. To fill the title in, TabOasis reads the link’s own text. That is the only thing it reads from the page, and it reads nothing at all on a page where you never right-click a link. If the link has no text, Chrome itself passes your current selection along when you press Save. See What we store and why.