Reviews for Copy ShortURL
Copy ShortURL by Fred Wenzel
58 reviews
- by sasakitz, 12 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by 大頭, 7 months agoRated 5 out of 5Can you add is.gd back if it's ok now? And I find kutt.it can't register an account. Shows "Signup has been disabled temporarily.". I can't get the API key from kutt.it now.
- by Firefox user 6772518, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5I've been using Copy ShortURL for a number of years and have been very pleased with its simplicity of use and convenience. I use it primarily when communicating long URLs in emails and social media posts, where long URLs become clunky and distracting to read, or where space is at a premium. I was particularly excited to learn that V.5.3.0 has restored is.gd to its list of URL shorteners!
Developer response
posted 8 months agoThank you! The is.gd service was broken for a little while (the service itself not the add-on), but it seems back now! - by orangxyz, 8 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Phylis, 8 months agoRated 4 out of 5
- by Harry, 8 months agoRated 3 out of 5This was the best shorturl I have ever used until about 3 weeks ago, when it would give an error instead of shortening the url. Recently it will use the tinyurl,app. My main social media is minds.com and minds won't let me use tinyurl, because they say it links to spam. There are now 12 websites which I receive newsletters from that they use the tinyurl on. Copy shorturl is no longer my favorite.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoWhy don't you choose a different URL shortener in the addon's settings? I did not cause is.gd to break, I'm just reacting to their service going away (try it yourself: go to is.gd in firefox and notice their website has disappeared).
Also, if you have a favorite URL shortening service that isn't supported, please file an issue on GitHub Issues for this add-on and I'm happy to take a look.
For what it's worth, I personally use bitly (with an API key that I created on their website) and it works great. - by Octavian, 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15469760, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Thanks for perfect Addon! I found one problem while using it: on site www.dennikn.sk it uses automaticly dennikn shortener, not bit.ly (or others selected), even if Use special URL formats is unchecked. It's possible that it is fault of www.dennikn.sk, because on youtube it works (generates bitly). Thanks for great addon again.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoYes this is a problem with the website itself. In the add-on settings, you can select that you *always* want to shorten the URL though. - by Shudushi, a year agoRated 4 out of 5Copy ShortURL is an excellent AddOn, exept on this URL:
https://geizhals.at/?cat=nb&xf=12822_6~12_16384~2379_17~2991_240~3710_Bluetooth+5~3710_WLAN+802.11ac~3710_WLAN+802.11ax~82_allgsosd~83_matt+(non-glare)~9_1920x1080&sort=p#productlist
Neither shortening with Copy ShortURL and tinyurl, nor bit.ly is working correctly, but copy the url and paste on bit.ly website is working fine.
UPDATE after developer feedback:
Shortened URL by Copy ShortURL (https://is.gd/eeQmwt) redirects to the right website (geizhals.at), but all the filters of the original URL are missing. Issue on github reported.
So it seems to me, that's something with Firefox and Copy ShortURL.
Maybe its possible for you to fix this.Developer response
posted a year agoSeems to work fine for me: https://is.gd/eeQmwt -- can you check the browser console, and file a bug for this add-on on github with more information? Thanks! - by Firefox user 14656513, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Jean Lo, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Excellent! Well-written (support native keyboard shortcut), flexible, and open source :-)
- by GG, 2 years agoRated 3 out of 5I been using this extension for sometime now with no problems. Not until the recent upgrade reason for 3-stars. After upgrade it didn't work at all, forcing me to use something else which is overkill for what I need. Anyway, I finally reverted back to the previous version. Wish I didn't have to. Using FF 62.0
Developer response
posted 2 years agoCan you file an issue on github about this? Reviews are not the perfect place for support requests. - by XFilius, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14129930, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Micheline, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14682106, 3 years agoRated 4 out of 5It worked well. But in Firefox 70.0.1 (x64) the problems are the same as bethel95 described: "URL is never copied into the paste buffer". On any sites. With any service. When bit.ly is selected: "No API key in preferences".
Developer response
posted 3 years agoMaybe there was a breaking API change in Firefox? Mozilla is not very proactive about informing you when things break.
As for bitly: Put an API key in then. - by apometron, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by syuuukkk, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 6814142, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5