# Enable Select Copy +Edit

> A toolbar button to enable selection, copy and typing editing web text redirectly in a tab

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `enable-select-copy-edit`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** GarryW
- **Category:** web-development,appearance,other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 357
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 4.38 / 5 (13 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.2
- **Last updated:** 2022-11-29
- **First published:** 2022-11-19
- **Size:** 17 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enable-select-copy-edit/)
- **Website:** [https://garywill.github.io](https://garywill.github.io/)

## Description

Enable Select Copy +Edit is a handy Chrome extension that adds a toolbar button to your browser, allowing you to toggle text selection, copying, and direct editing on any webpage. With one click, you can enable text selection and copy disabled text, click again to enable in-place text editing, and click a third time to disable editing.

Please note that forcing selection and editing on some websites might disrupt their original features. This extension uses BSD-licensed code from Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy by Absolute, ensuring a reliable and easy way to interact with web text directly within your tab.

## Rankings

- #6,175 — Overall
- #59 — selection
- #82 — sell
- #123 — css editor
- #136 — text editor
- #149 — typing

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users appreciate that Enable Select Copy +Edit reliably enables text selection, copying, and editing on websites where this is normally blocked. It is praised for simplicity and effective functionality on recent Firefox versions. However, some users express concerns over it not being open source, which affects trust. Overall, it serves its intended purpose well and meets users' needs for copying or editing web content easily.

### Pros

- Effectively allows users to select, copy, and edit text on websites that normally restrict these actions.
- Simple and easy to use with just a click to make website content copiable and editable.
- Works reliably on recent Firefox versions (e.g., Firefox 118).
- Enables copying of specific text segments from web content, which users find very useful.

### Cons

- Lack of open-source transparency causing some users to feel uneasy about trusting the add-on.
- No mention of additional features beyond selection, copy, and editing capabilities.

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