Select Link Text

Name: Select Link Text
Rating: 4.1136 (44 reviews)
Author: Afnan Khan

By: Afnan Khan

Select link's text just like regular text

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Features & Capabilities

Select Link Text is a Chrome extension designed to allow users to select and copy link text just as they would regular text, enhancing copying convenience especially on webpages with tricky link text elements. It is a fork of the popular "Select like a Boss" extension by Dzianis Rusak, focusing on smooth user experience.

Please note, this extension does not function on certain pages such as addons.mozilla.org and internal browser pages ("about:" pages) due to limitations in the WebExtensions API. Overall, it offers a simple but valuable improvement to text selection interactions on the web.

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Version:

2017.3.27resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25

Version code:

5727312

Creation date:

2016-11-26

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Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

13.96KB

Email:

af*****@outlook.com

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 7,693 ▲ 12

Other rankings

#47 in selection keyword 18

#59 in sell keyword 20

#105 in links keyword 37

#135 in broken links keyword 23 ▲ 2

#145 in speech to text keyword 29 ▼ 2

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Developed by:

Afnan Khan

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/select-link-text/

Email:

af*****@outlook.com

User Reviews

As others have said, this breaks text-box functionality on multiple sites (chatgpt, bluesky, etc.). Specifically: you can write the text, but clicking on it disables any kind of interaction. Drove me mad before I figured it out, given that selecting links should have nothing to do with writing in a text box. The addon seems pretty much abandoned. Don't install.

by Fi*****, 2026-02-08

ChatGPT and some other site text-box stop works if this addon is enabled. please fix

by Fi*****, 2025-09-04

Normal behavior: click on a link and drag like you're selecting the text, and the entire link is dragged. To select the link text you have to start outside the text and drag over it. Select Link Text behavior: click on a link and drag like you're selecting text, and the text is selected.

by Ch*****, 2025-08-19

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Is Select Link Text Safe?

Risk impact

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Select Link Text requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Select Link Text has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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