About this extension

If someone wanted to show to you a text on a webpage, he would have sent a link and told you to press CTRL+F and enter a certain text.
Qotter Copy&Show lets you

select some text on a webpage and send this selection to someone.
Open the according webpage and get the selection highlighted automatically.

Usage:
You have selected some text on a webpage. Now you turn this selection into a link by

pressing CTRL+ALT+C or
clicking the symbol with the yellow highlight or
a right mouse button click that opens the context menu and selecting "Create Copy & Show Link".

An animation of the qotter symbol confirms that the link is copied to the clipboard. You can paste this link into any document by pressing CTRL+V or RMB -> paste, just as you are used to.

If you click on such a link with the addon installed, the browser will open the according page and select the exact passage you had selected initially.

Because these links tend to be very long, with the RMB you can select the function "Create HTML Link". In a html document such a link will be displayed much prettier, for example:
en.wikipedia: Highlighters are a...

This web extension uses an idea by Gervase Markham.

Developer comments

Known Issues:

Doesn't work on "addons.mozilla.org". This is because AMO is a software distibution site that has special security demands.
Doesn't copy separate texts, e.g. in lists. This is due to the browsers search function, which doesn't neither.
Doesn't work in pdf documents.

Rate your experience

Report this add-on

Used by