# Text Fragment

> Auto scroll to text fragment (#:~:text) and allow you to create link for selected text.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `text-fragment`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** sycxyc
- **Category:** social-communication,tabs
- **Daily users:** 945
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 4.58 / 5 (24 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-24
- **First published:** 2023-05-13
- **Size:** 34 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-fragment/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ichaoX/ext-textFragment/issues](https://github.com/ichaoX/ext-textFragment/issues)

## Description

Text Fragment lets you link directly to a precise passage in a web page using the #:~:text URL fragment. It enables auto-scrolling to the selected text and creates shareable links that jump to the exact passage, without annotating the page.

Notes for different platforms: Firefox for Android uses the extension icon, while Firefox 131+ may switch to the browser's native scroll-to-text-fragment by default. The extension is open source and bug reports can be filed on GitHub. See the WICG spec and the GitHub issues page for more details.

## Rankings

- #3,388 — Overall
- #315 — Tabs
- #2 — fragment
- #70 — speech to text
- #77 — summarize text
- #95 — context menu

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `clipboardWrite`
- `find`
- `menus`
- `storage`
- `webNavigation`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Text Fragment is praised for a simple, fast, and reliable text-fragment linking experience with a clean UI and good defaults. It works well on mobile and across platforms, and the developer is active. Pros include ease of use, cross-platform stability, and thoughtful defaults. Noted downsides are clipboard copy issues, occasional glitches with scrolling/highlighting, and some OS-specific limitations.

### Pros

- Simple, clean UI with fast, reliable text-fragment linking that just works.
- Works well across devices, including mobile, with solid cross-platform support.
- Good defaults and safety features, such as 'Disable when natively supported' enabled by default.
- Active development and responsive support from the author.

### Cons

- Clipboard copying can fail or copy the wrong text on some setups.
- Occasional reliability glitches, including not scrolling to the target and brief/disappearing highlights.
- Some users report OS-specific issues (e.g., Linux) limiting functionality.

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