Top 15 Shortwave Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Shortwave is an extensible quick-search and shortcut bookmark.
Drag the Shortwave bookmark onto your browser bookmarks bar. Clicking the bookmark will result in a JavaScript prompt.

Shortwave responds to commands. A command consists of a predefined trigger plus optional search terms. To search Wikipedia for “bookmarklet” you would type w bookmarklet into the prompt and hit enter. You could also select the text before invoking Shortwave and just type w then hit enter. Some commands don’t require search terms. To see your current IP address you would type ip. To open the resulting page in a new window simply prefix your entire command with a space. ...

1. Quix

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2. Gesturely

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3. Keyboard Master

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4. Total Power

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5. Find And Run Robot

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6. Gnome Do

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7. Keypirinha

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8. Keystrokes

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9. LaunchBar

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10. Enso Launcher

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11. Executor

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12. True Launch Bar

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14. dmenu

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15. Spark (Hotkey Manager)

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