# Text Link Activator

> Turns plain text links into clickable ones automatically.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `text-link-activator`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Kaweg
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Version:** 3.3.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-17
- **First published:** 2025-04-14
- **Size:** 103 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-link-activator/)

## Description

Text Link Activator scans web pages and detects plain text URLs, converting them into clickable links. Great for forums, logs, or plain text content.

Instantly linkifies plain URLs
Clickable like native links
Works on most websites
Local processing only

## Rankings

- #44,385 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `contextMenus`
- `history`
- `storage`
- `alarms`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/text-link-activator)