# PurePaste

> Paste text with smart line break control. Perfect for PDFs and documents. Three modes: keep line breaks, smart merge for PDFs, or single line.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `purepaste`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ciro Di Salvo
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-17
- **First published:** 2026-01-12
- **Size:** 25 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/purepaste/)

## Description

PurePaste is a lightweight extension that lets you paste text with smart formatting control, managing line breaks based on your needs.

Perfect for copying content from PDFs, websites, and documents when you want clean, well-structured text. With PurePaste you can quickly paste organized content into any text field.

🔹 No data collection
🔹 Works completely offline
🔹 Simple, fast, and distraction-free

Features:
- Paste keeping line breaks - preserves text exactly as copied
- Smart paste for PDFs - intelligently merges lines within paragraphs while preserving list structures and recognizing paragraph breaks
- Paste all on one line - removes all line breaks for continuous text

## Rankings

- #57,123 — Overall
- #126 — paste

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `clipboardRead`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/purepaste)