# Strip Special Characters

> Select form field text and right-click to strip special characters from selected text. We do not collect or transmit any field data as this operates locally only.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/strip-special-characters](https://chrome-stats.com/d/strip-special-characters)

## Overview

- **ID:** `strip-special-characters`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** S'GUT Solutions
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-08
- **First published:** 2025-05-05
- **Size:** 173 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/strip-special-characters/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/stgiGGs/Extensions-FireFox-Strip\_Special\_Characters](https://github.com/stgiGGs/Extensions-FireFox-Strip_Special_Characters)

## Description

Strip Special Characters is a lightweight Firefox extension that adds a “Strip special characters” item to the context-menu of any editable field (input, textarea or content-editable).

Key features:
- Whitelist-mode: remove all non-alphanumeric chars except those you explicitly allow.
- Blacklist-mode: strip only the characters you specify; everything else stays intact.
- Dirty-state feedback: the Save button in Options stays disabled until you edit something, then becomes Save Changes in green.
- Keyboard shortcut: default Ctrl + Shift + Y (⌘ + Shift + Y on macOS), rebindable via about:addons → Manage Extension Shortcuts.
- No data leaves your browser. All processing and settings storage is 100% local.

## Rankings

- #49,034 — Overall
- #208 — trial

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- 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/strip-special-characters)