Google Calendar Clickable Links in Popups

Fixes the issue where links in Google Calendar's popups aren't clickable.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-05-05 due to Chrome Web Store policy violation
Users: 581
Rating: 4.75 (4)
Version: 1 (Last updated: 2016-04-09)
Creation date: 2016-04-09
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 13.72K

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Extension summary

Google's Calendar popups add zero width space characters every 10 or so characters to the Where field, in order to create a "wrapping" effect without visibly altering the text. The issue with this is that if you copy/paste text out of the Where field, it will still contain the zero width space character mixed into all of the text. While this isn't a problem when the "where" is a Google Hangouts video link (because they replace the where field with their special widget), and it's not much of a problem if the where field contains a physical address (because Google provides a "map" link to map to the location), it becomes a problem if you want to store information in the where field that doesn't fit into Google's way of thinking.

Say you want to store a Go To Meeting URL, WebEx URL, BlueJeans.com URL, or perhaps a Room.co URL in the Where field. First, the link isn't made clickable. Second, if you copy the URL and paste it into the Chrome "omnibar", the zero width space is pasted right along with the rest of the URL. Not only that, the zero width space is converted to a valid escaped URL code for the zero width space. You would notice this as % encoded characters in the URL - except Chrome autoconverts % encoded values into their appropriate utf-8 character in the URL bar to support multi-lingual URLs and UTF-8 characters in searches via the "omnibar". So, you think you pasted the clean url, but the zero width spaces remain, and the various meeting services report the URL to be invalid, and you can't join your meeting.

This extension fixes both of these issues by first removing the erroneously used zero with space character and then finding and making clickable any http link in the where field.

Source code can be found here: http://github.com/jonathanfalkner/gcal_clickable

User reviews

Very good! Does exactly as described. If you add a link and it does not appear clickable, either reload the page or refresh the calendar. Sorted.
by Dean Rowntree, 2017-07-26

Well executed and clean solution. Kudos to the developer!
by Tom Francis, 2016-04-12

Fabulous. Simple and gets the job done. Shame on Google Calendar for not having clickable URLs in those popups by now, but this fixes it.
by Mike Crittenden, 2016-04-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Google Calendar Clickable Links in Popups requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Google Calendar Clickable Links in Popups is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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