# Canonical

> Allows you to quickly navigate to or copy the canonical version of the URL you're on, if available.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/canonical-link](https://chrome-stats.com/d/canonical-link)

## Overview

- **ID:** `canonical-link`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Web Guy
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 177
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 4.25 / 5 (8 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-14
- **First published:** 2018-01-24
- **Size:** 17 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/canonical-link/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/webguyio/canonical/issues](https://github.com/webguyio/canonical/issues)

## Description

Canonical is a lightweight Chrome extension that helps you access and share the official URL for the page you’re viewing. It adds a C icon to the address bar and uses color cues to indicate status: Gray means you’re already on the canonical URL, Blue means a canonical URL is available but different from the current page, Purple suggests a clean URL when no canonical link is present, and Black/None means no canonical link and the URL is already clean.

With a single click you can navigate to the canonical URL or copy it to your clipboard for bookmarking, social sharing, or SEO tasks. This small tool promotes professionalism, accurate attribution, and a cleaner experience when saving or sharing links.

## Rankings

- #8,762 — Overall
- #168 — scan
- #198 — navigation
- #213 — benefit

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `contextMenus`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/canonical-link)