Copy ShortURL

Name: Copy ShortURL
Rating: 4.5645 (62 reviews)
Author: Fred Wenzel

Copy ShortURL lets you instantly create a short URL for web pages that you visit, so you can easily share links with friends.

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Copy ShortURL is a handy Chrome extension that adds a new item to your browser's right-click menu called “Copy Short URL.” By simply right-clicking on any webpage, you can quickly generate a short URL either from the site's canonical short link or, if unavailable, through a preferred URL shortening service like is.gd. This short URL is instantly copied to your clipboard, enabling effortless sharing in emails, social media, or forums.

The extension supports a variety of major websites such as YouTube, Wordpress.com, ArsTechnica, and TechCrunch, which expose their own short URLs. When those aren't present, Copy ShortURL smartly falls back to user-configurable URL shorteners, giving you flexibility and speed in link sharing. This efficient tool streamlines your browsing experience by making link sharing just a right-click away.

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Daily users:

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Version:

5.5.0 Last updated: 2022-05-23

Version code:

5408857

Creation date:

2010-07-13

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
clipboardWrite
contextMenus
notifications
storage
<all_urls>

Size:

154.92KB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

14 hours ago

Ranking

# 1,566 ▲ 2

Other rankings

#81 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▼ 1

#173 in Social & Communication ▼ 1

#6 in shoot keyword 16 ▲ 1

#112 in sort keyword 18 ▼ 1

#122 in shop keyword 50 ▼ 1

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User reviews

Pros

Very simple and easy to use with convenient functionality.
Helps shorten URLs effectively, making them cleaner and more manageable especially for emails and social media posts.
Supports multiple URL shortening services, including is.gd and bit.ly.
Open source and supports native keyboard shortcuts.
Helpful in removing tracking data and creating shorter links than some other extensions.

Cons

Does not work properly with some specific URLs, losing filter parameters during shortening.
Issues with copying shortened URL to clipboard in recent Firefox versions.
Problems with certain URL shortening services (e.g., kutt.it signup disabled, tinyurl flagged as spam on some platforms).
Automatic use of site-specific shorteners even when not desired.
Does not work correctly on some browsers other than Firefox (e.g., Zen Browser) and on PDFs.

Recent reviews

Did not work on Zen Browser

by Fi*****, 2025-04-14

This simple app is one of the many reasons I will never leave firefox. the feature which copies the page title and shorturl is amazing.

by AP*****, 2025-02-18

with the kutt.it service the links are created but not copied, returning an error. In the portal, however, they are created correctly

by Fi*****, 2025-01-01

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Copy ShortURL requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Copy ShortURL has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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