Cool Papers Browser Extension Upgraded to v0.2.0 · English (unofficial) translations of posts at kexue.fm

At the beginning of the year, in the post "A More Convenient Way to Open Cool Papers: Chrome Redirector Extension", we released a Chrome browser extension (Cool Papers Redirector v0.1.0). It allowed users to redirect to Cool Papers from any page via a right-click menu, making it easier for everyone to access Kimi’s understanding of research papers. A few days ago, we upgraded the extension to v0.2.0 and successfully listed it on the Chrome Web Store. I am writing this to share the update with you.

Update Summary

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 redirection now opens in a new tab;

2. The right-click menu supports accessing multiple paper IDs simultaneously;

3. The right-click menu now supports PDF pages;

4. Added more paper sources to the right-click menu (arXiv, OpenReview, ACL, IJCAI, PMLR);

5. If no paper ID is found, the right-click menu redirects to an internal site search (i.e., highlight-to-search);

6. Shortcut redirection links are inserted at appropriate positions on certain websites (arXiv, OpenReview, ACL).

Below is a detailed introduction to these updates.

Right-click Menu

The first five points of the update concern the right-click menu, which is the primary function of the Cool Papers extension. Its working logic is: it sequentially checks whether 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. The new version now supports identifying multiple paper IDs to open them in 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 previously, 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 did not appear. This was a legacy issue from the old version, which has now been resolved in the new version.

Finally, if no paper ID is detected in the selected text, hyperlink, or page path, the extension will use the selected text as a query and jump to the internal search page of Cool Papers. In this case, it functions as a highlight-to-search feature.

Page Links

The final change is a newly introduced feature outside of the right-click menu. It inserts hyperlinks that jump to Cool Papers at appropriate locations 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 interfere with your original browsing experience. If it causes any inconvenience, please let me know.

Summary

This article briefly introduces the upgrade of the Cool Papers Redirector browser extension based on my own usage experience. Everyone is welcome to test it. If you have further suggestions for improvement, please feel free to leave a comment.

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