On any webpage, this add-on adds a new item in the right click menu called “Copy Short URL”. When you click it, the add-on looks for a canonical short URL exposed by the website itself or creates its own.
A number of major websites expose their own short URLs for any entry on their webpages, among these: youtube (“youtu.be/…”), Wordpress.com, Arstechnica, Techcrunch, and many more.
If, however, the site does not name its own short URL, the add-on automatically falls back to making a short URL using a URL shortening service of your choice (see the extension settings screen). The default is currently is.gd.
After a fraction of a second, you end up with a short URL in your clipboard, ready to be used in tweets, emails, forum posts, or wherever else you please.
Install
- License: Mozilla Public License 1.1
- Weekly downloads: 35
- Average daily users: 3851
- Rating: 4.5862/5 of 58 ratings
- Created: 2010-07-13 23:15:18
- Last updated: 2022-05-23 21:06:55
- Homepage: http://github.com/fwenzel/copy-shorturl
- Support site and email
- Orig: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/
- API: jid0-ODIKJS9b4IT3H1NYlPKr0NDtLuE@jetpack
