# Slack Redirect

> Redirects Slack links directly to the Slack web app URL, skipping the interstitial page which tries to open the native Slack app.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `slack-redirect`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** David Rubino
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 13
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-02
- **First published:** 2025-12-30
- **Size:** 41 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/slack-redirect/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/apsociallife/SlackRedirect](https://github.com/apsociallife/SlackRedirect)

## Description

Slack produces a native Windows/macOS app but also has a nearly identicial web UI. Users of the web UI experience frustration however, as links to Slack messages created in both the native app and web app are in the form https://{WORKSPACE}.slack.com/archives/{CHANNEL_ID}/p{timestamp} which leads to a page that attempts to open the native Slack app from the browser. Avoiding this redirect saves considerable time for Slack web app users. 

Slack Redirect is a Firefox extension which intercepts links in the above format and opens instead to the <code><a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/134e27e1e2b082500baff63d0e8a037f352bbea6b7245578d48ffc335bc183b7/https%3A//app.slack.com/client/" rel="nofollow">https://app.slack.com/client/</a>{TEAM_ID}/{CHANNEL_ID}</code> format directly in Firefox.

## Rankings

- #29,901 — Overall
- #93 — redirect
- #142 — direct link

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`
- `*://*.slack.com/*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- 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/slack-redirect)