# Copy Plain Text WE

> Copy as text without formatting. Keyboard shortcut F8.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/copy-plain-text-we](https://chrome-stats.com/d/copy-plain-text-we)

## Overview

- **ID:** `copy-plain-text-we`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** yukisama
- **Category:** other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 80
- **Rating:** 3.44 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.5resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-10-28
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-plain-text-we/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Yukisama/TextLinkyTool](https://github.com/Yukisama/TextLinkyTool)

## Description

Copy Plain Text WE is a Firefox add-on that provides a simple way to copy text without any formatting. With the keyboard shortcut F8, you can easily copy selected text or the entire page as plain text. Try this handy tool now!

## Rankings

- #13,119 — Overall
- #232 — format
- #245 — speech to text

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `menus`
- `contextMenus`
- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/copy-plain-text-we)