[google-chrome] Start an external application from a Google Chrome Extension?

How to start an external application from a Google Chrome Extension?

So basically I have an executable file which does the job when you launch it. I need to be able to start it without a window (it is a console application) and pass the current URL to it in an argument,

There's an extension for Chrome (SimpleGet) that has a plugin for Windows and Linux that can execute an app with command line parameters.....
http://pinel.cc/
http://code.google.com/p/simple-get/
http://www.chromeextensions.org/other/simple-get/

I go for hypothesys since I can't verify now.

With Apache, if you make a php script on your local machine calling your executable, and then call this script via POST or GET via html/javascript?

would it function?

let me know.

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There is an extension in google chrome marketspace to do exactly that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hccmhjmmfdfncbfpogafcbpaebclgjcp

You can't launch arbitrary commands, but if your users are willing to go through some extra setup, you can use custom protocols.

E.g. you have the users set things up so that some-app:// links start "SomeApp", and then in my-awesome-extension you open a tab pointing to some-app://some-data-the-app-wants, and you're good to go!