# Highlight to Link 🔗

> Enhance your browsing experience by creating direct links to selected text passages on any webpage!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/highlight-to-link](https://chrome-stats.com/d/highlight-to-link)

## Overview

- **ID:** `highlight-to-link`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** GGTheFirefox
- **Category:** search-tools,bookmarks,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 86
- **Rating:** 3.33 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-25
- **First published:** 2024-10-24
- **Size:** 28 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/highlight-to-link/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/JaceTheBlu/Highlight-to-Link](https://github.com/JaceTheBlu/Highlight-to-Link)

## Description

**Highlight to Link** is a Firefox extension that enhances your browsing experience by allowing you to create direct links to selected text passages on any webpage. Whether you are a student, researcher, or just curious, this extension makes it easy to share and save important information.

## Features

- **Quick Selection**: Highlight any text on a webpage and right-click to generate a direct link.
- **Smart Links**: The links include text fragments, making it easier to return to the relevant section of the page later.
- **Text Fragment Management**: If a link is already present, it is automatically updated to reflect your new selection.
- **User-Friendly Interface**: Easy to use with no complicated setup required.
- **Language Support**: Detects the page language and adjusts the extension interface accordingly.

## Installation

1. **Download the source code**:
   - Clone this repository or download it as a ZIP file.

   ```bash
   git clone <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/18ede5d85c6e1f5a3fc0de5b858cd0dacb8b0f1c4ce9e2a9253afc42b8d419b2/https%3A//github.com/JaceTheBlu/highlight-to-link.git" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JaceTheBlu/highlight-to-link.git</a>

## Rankings

- #12,444 — Overall
- #46 — highlighter
- #56 — fragment
- #82 — delight
- #104 — flight
- #164 — links

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/highlight-to-link)