enable-selection

Enable Selection in some websites which block selection by mouse to open context menu and copy. This small (only ~20 lines of…

Enable-Selection Chrome Extension | Overcome Copy Block

'Enable-Selection' is a minimalistic Chrome extension, efficient at enabling mouse text selection and copying in websites that block such actions. Working in a broad range of sites, it restores basic browser functionalities that are obscured by specific webpage scripts. Ideal for sites with loading delays, this tool either waits till loading completion or activates with Esc key input.

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By: limkokhole

Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.05

(21)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2019-01-11)

Creation date: 2019-01-07

Size: 12.14K

Email: li*****@gmail.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 17,266 ▲ 19

Other rankings

#4129 in Accessibility ▲ 183 #6 in selection keyword 28 #227 in loading keyword 22 ▼ 16

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Works effectively for enabling text selection on restricted sites.
Good performance compared to other similar extensions.
User-friendly and easy to install.
Helpful for specific site functions.

Cons

Disables custom right-click menus on various websites.
Causes functionality issues on some sites like Google Sheets and Peertube.
Requires jQuery to function properly; won't work on sites that don’t use it.
No option to disable the extension for specific sites.

Most mentioned

Disables right-click context menus.
Works well for enabling selection on restricted sites.
Causes issues on certain websites like Google Sheets and Yandex mail.

User reviews

It's working, so I am glad.

Vineet Kishore, 2024-05-05

Very good extension for sites which needs it. Except that it brokes peertube's context menu on any peertube instance (just 'regular' browser context menu is shown) and there is no way to disable extension for specific sites.

Dmitriy Kazimirov, 2024-04-28

Just works! Thanks!

Lior Mor, 2023-08-25

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Extension safety

Risk impact

enable-selection requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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