# Text Link

> Allows URI texts written in webpages to be loaded by double clicks.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `text-link`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Piro (piro\_or)
- **Category:** web-development,appearance
- **Daily users:** 12,981
- **Weekly downloads:** 25
- **Rating:** 4.16 / 5 (109 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.1.10
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-03
- **First published:** 2006-01-24
- **Size:** 128 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-link/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/piroor/textlink/issues](https://github.com/piroor/textlink/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-link/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-link/privacy/)

## Description

Text Link is a convenient Chrome extension that empowers users to open unlinked URI texts on webpages with a simple double-click. Normally, users need to manually select, copy, and paste these URI texts into the address bar to visit them — a process that can be tedious and time-consuming, especially on pages rendered with proportional fonts.

With Text Link, this process is streamlined: double-clicking any URI text immediately loads the corresponding webpage, eliminating multiple manual steps. This extension enhances web browsing efficiency by saving time and reducing frustration when interacting with plain-text URLs.

## Rankings

- #665 — Overall
- #54 — Web Development
- #98 — Appearance
- #14 — broken links
- #30 — links
- #40 — loading

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `clipboardWrite`
- `menus`
- `find`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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 medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users generally love Text Link for reliably turning text into links and long‑term usefulness. However, multiple reviewers report serious performance and compatibility problems (slow pages, hangs, high CPU, site-specific interference). Many ask for per-site controls, updates, and fixes for iframe/false‑positive issues.

### Pros

- Widely praised — multiple users say it "just works", calling it perfect/beautiful.
- Simple and effective: reliably detects and converts text URIs into clickable links.
- Long‑term useful — several reviewers report using it for years.

### Cons

- Performance issues: several reports of slow page loads, hangs, and very high CPU usage.
- Site compatibility problems: causes unresponsiveness or interference on some sites (Google searches, GitHub editing, social media, Gmail).
- Limited configuration: users ask for per‑site disable or more options/updates to control behavior.
- Compatibility gaps: problems with iframes and occasional false positives that interfere with text selection.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/text-link)