# Copy ShortURL

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

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `copy-shorturl`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fred Wenzel
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 2,416
- **Weekly downloads:** 6
- **Rating:** 4.56 / 5 (62 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-23
- **First published:** 2010-07-13
- **Size:** 155 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/)
- **Website:** [http://github.com/fwenzel/copy-shorturl/issues](http://github.com/fwenzel/copy-shorturl/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/privacy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #1,930 — Overall
- #105 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #221 — Social & Communication
- #7 — shoot
- #142 — choice
- #161 — shop

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`
- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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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## Review summary

### 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.

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