Reviews of Text Link

By: Piro (piro_or) Add-on

List of user reviews and ratings for Text Link

Total ratings

4.16 (Rating count: 109)

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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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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.90

All time rating average: 4.16

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10% (11)

Date	Author	Comment
2025-09-01	Fi*****	A lot of regex calls are invoked. This improper implementation causes slowdown loading many webpages.
A lot of regex calls are invoked. This improper implementation causes slowdown loading many webpages.
2025-08-16	il*****

2025-07-08	ac*****	This is just so beautiful
This is just so beautiful
2024-12-08	Fi*****	This add-on caused Google and other sites to stop responding for long periods of time. For example, when performing a search, it would take about 10 seconds to respond. I also had to wait several seconds when posting to social media. I don't know the details, but disabling this add-on solved the problem.
This add-on caused Google and other sites to stop responding for long periods of time. For example, when performing a search, it would take about 10 seconds to respond. I also had to wait several seconds when posting to social media. I don't know the details, but disabling this add-on solved the problem.
2024-11-27	al*****

2024-11-23	(⁠*****	+1;
+1;
2024-09-24	Fi*****	Text Link works, but can hang some websites. E.g., editing an issue on GitHub with a handful of links of various types resulted in the extension using 100% of my CPU per `about:performance`. The only solution was to disable the extension then kill the process manually.
Text Link works, but can hang some websites. E.g., editing an issue on GitHub with a handful of links of various types resulted in the extension using 100% of my CPU per `about:performance`. The only solution was to disable the extension then kill the process manually.
2024-08-07	ig*****

2024-07-06	Fi*****

2024-01-07	Fi*****