# Copy with Source for Firefox

> Copy selected text together with a clickable link back to the original web page. Optionally use the page heading as the link text and include the current date, making it easy to keep track of where your notes, quotes, and research came from.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/copy-with-source-for-firefox](https://chrome-stats.com/d/copy-with-source-for-firefox)

## Overview

- **ID:** `copy-with-source-for-firefox`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** FoxyPrecision
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-28
- **First published:** 2026-07-25
- **Size:** 160 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-with-source-for-firefox/)

## Description

<strong>Features</strong>:
<ul><li>Copy selected text with a clickable source link</li><li>Preserves rich text formatting</li><li>Plain text/markdown fallback for text editors</li><li>Optionally use the page heading instead of the page title</li><li>Optionally include the current date</li></ul>

## Rankings

- #94,569 — Overall
- #127 — source code
- #136 — source
- #202 — resource

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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-with-source-for-firefox)