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Copy As Plain Text

by Yubi

v0.1.5 Updated Jul 22, 2025 17.9KiB
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30K
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★ 4.14
49 reviews
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Description

Copy As Plain Text is a lite extension that lets you easily copy any text without formatting to the clipboard via the right-click context-menu item. Simply browse a website and select a desired text, then right-click and select - Copy as plain text - from the context-menu. The selected text will be copied to the clipboard without any formatting. Alternatively, you can press the toolbar button to copy the plain text to the clipboard. Please note that, to paste the clipboard you can use (Ctrl + V) or right-click and select - Paste - from the context-menu. To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/copy-as-plain-text.html).
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Reviews (8 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-30
Dylan Johnson

Stopped working. said "copy failed will exceed publishers limit..." Thanks for delaying my studying.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-21
Crystal Identity

Technically, it works (copies text with all formatting removed). Unfortunately, in doing so, it also removes carriage returns. 😣 That means, when you copy text that is made up of separate lines and/or multiple paragraphs, when you paste it, you get a MASSIVE single block of text instead! Because of this, you then have to waste so much time and energy putting back all the carriage returns to separate the text into lines and paragraphs again. This is far too annoying for me to deal with, so I am uninstalling. I've decided to go with another extension, Copy as Plain Text - Format Cleaner, because that one is capable of retaining carriage returns.

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-22
Isaac Alvarado

It works when it feels like working. Half the time it works, half the time it fails. It's never consistent.

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-26
Daniel de Lux -

USELESS

★☆☆☆☆2021-11-05
Ivan Trbulin

It's not working anymore lmao

★★☆☆☆2024-10-16
Meynard Mojello

Works on some text but not PDFs with different formats ( designed with Canva specifically).

★★☆☆☆2022-06-09
Valerian Jelauc

You need to click many times to "Copy" action to actually copy the text...

★★★☆☆2023-05-11
Ivan Monells

It would help a lot to have an option to keep line breaks

Permissions (5)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension clipboardWrite Can write to your clipboard contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.1.5
Updated Jul 22, 2025
Size 17.9KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026