# OSINT - Open Selection In New Tab

> Adds right-click-context-menu which opens currently selected text as an URL in a new tab.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/osint](https://chrome-stats.com/d/osint)

## Overview

- **ID:** `osint`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Akumu
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 77
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 4.43 / 5 (7 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-11-18
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/osint/)

## Description

The OSINT Chrome extension enhances your browsing experience by allowing you to open any selected text as a URL in a new tab directly via the right-click context menu. This handy tool automatically cleans the selected text by removing whitespaces and intelligently replacing text variations like '(dot)', '(point)', '(punkte)', and '(.)' with a period ('.'), ensuring the resulting URL is valid. Ideal for researchers, professionals, and casual users, OSINT streamlines the process of navigating to links embedded in plain text without manual copying or editing.

## Rankings

- #13,159 — Overall
- #17 — selection
- #122 — section
- #181 — open vpn
- #189 — sell
- #193 — open ai

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `tabs`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/osint)