# CleanCopy

> Cleans and normalises copied text via a context menu action (e.g. right click to "CleanCopy"). This is particularly useful for text outputted by AI LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `cleancopy`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Elliot J. Reed
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-23
- **First published:** 2025-05-10
- **Size:** 46 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cleancopy/)
- **Website:** [https://www.elliotjreed.com](https://www.elliotjreed.com/)

## Description

CleanCopy standardises text when you copy from websites. It converts fancy quotes, dashes and spaces to plain text equivalents, removes hidden characters, normalises punctuation, and preserves emojis. Perfect for pasting into emails, documents, or code without formatting issues.

## Rankings

- #123,748 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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