Unlock Copy - Right Click

Some sites switch off text selection. Others take away the right-click menu, swallow Ctrl+C, or let the copy go through and then quietly replace what you copied with a link back to their homepage. Unlock Copy puts all of it back.

Click the toolbar button and the page behaves normally again. Select text, right-click, copy with the keyboard. There is no account and nothing to set up before it works.

Two levels, and the popup keeps them apart

"Unlock this page" fixes the page in front of you right now. Nothing to approve, no reload. It lasts until you navigate away.

"Always unlock this site" is for pages you keep coming back to. Firefox asks you once, about that one site, and from then on the unlock runs before the site's own code. That ordering is the whole point: when a page installs its blocker before anything else runs, nothing arriving later can undo it.

Why it works where the usual approach stops

Most extensions of this kind inject a stylesheet saying selection is allowed, and any site shipping its own competing rule beats that. Unlock Copy puts its rule in the user stylesheet layer instead, which the browser ranks above anything a page can write, inline styles included. Sites that fight back still lose.

It leaves working sites alone

A page listening for the copy event is not automatically doing something hostile. Code blocks with a copy button, rich text editors and password managers all listen for that same event for ordinary reasons. Rather than deleting those listeners, Unlock Copy lets them run and takes away only their ability to cancel your copy. Text boxes, contenteditable regions and editors like CodeMirror, Monaco and ProseMirror are skipped entirely.

What gets unlocked

• Text selection and copy
• The right-click menu
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Clean copy, which strips the "read more at..." text some sites bolt onto whatever you copied

What it cannot do

Being straight about this is more useful than overpromising.

Text painted into a canvas, or shipped as an image, is not text. Nothing can copy it. Text placed by CSS pseudo-element content is unselectable by design in every browser. Frames embedded from another site stay locked unless you unlock that site too. The built-in PDF viewer and about: pages are closed to every extension.

Permissions and privacy

A fresh install cannot read any website. It asks for activeTab, scripting and storage, and no host permissions at all. Site access is requested one origin at a time, by name, only when you turn on "Always unlock this site", and you can revoke it whenever you like.

Nothing is collected and nothing is sent anywhere. There is no server and no analytics. The build fails if a networking call appears anywhere in the source, so this is checked rather than promised.

Free and open source under the MIT licence: https://github.com/TiltedLunar123/unlock-copy