Review by Firefox user 13371234
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13371234, 7 years agoI was previously using a different addon, Neat URL. I disabled that one so I could give ClearURLs a proper try. However, I realized that every time I restart Firefox, ClearURLs gets disabled, and Neat URL is re-enabled. Suspecting some sort of misbehavior from Neat URL, I fully removed Neat URL. However, even after that, ClearURLs is still showing as disabled in my addons list every time I restart Firefox. What's going on? I've never seen this behavior with any other addon.
EDIT: I figured out what was going on. Back when Mozilla had the certificate debacle that resulted in addons getting disabled en masse for everyone, I made my extensions.json file read-only as an attempt to keep my addons forcibly enabled. After the official fixes from Mozilla, I forgot to uncheck "read-only" from extensions.json. ClearURLs was the first new addon I've tried since that time. Anyway, when I tried to disable all my addons as a test, they came up as re-enabled when I restarted Firefox. That's when I finally suspected my extensions.json. So, I realized that was still read-only. Fixing that, now everything is working as expected. I'll update my ClearURLs rating to 5-stars.
EDIT: I figured out what was going on. Back when Mozilla had the certificate debacle that resulted in addons getting disabled en masse for everyone, I made my extensions.json file read-only as an attempt to keep my addons forcibly enabled. After the official fixes from Mozilla, I forgot to uncheck "read-only" from extensions.json. ClearURLs was the first new addon I've tried since that time. Anyway, when I tried to disable all my addons as a test, they came up as re-enabled when I restarted Firefox. That's when I finally suspected my extensions.json. So, I realized that was still read-only. Fixing that, now everything is working as expected. I'll update my ClearURLs rating to 5-stars.
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- Rated 2 out of 5by Arin, 3 days agoYeah sadly makes amazon unusable, nice extension, but till there is a whitelisting option, have to remove it. Or after clicking a link and automated F5 at least that would work for amazon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by lychee, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19902880, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by alzhetv, a month agoGood for some usage and data privacy. If it don't block other things, like Twitch video-player or Amazon Review Sorting Rules. Sadly I have to remove it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19893903, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19891810, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19886097, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19885048, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19882925, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19868159, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by heiska, a month agoUnfortunately, ClearURLs blocks sorting rules like star ratings on Amazon (e.g. clicks on alternating star ratings or newest and verified purchases only). There's also no toggle for quickly disabling clear URLs on specific sites. A whitelist or easy customization for individual websites via parameters/filters would be crucial for continued use of this otherwise excellent add-on. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 肉肉, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19838361, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by bl, 2 months agoI just discovered that it's this extension that breaks Google's AI mode and AI overview on my browser so I'm removing it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by лягушка, 2 months agoхорошее, хорошее, ну очень хорошее разрешение (: но не дружит с нейросетями ):.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18099698, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FM, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18896950, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Elegant Space Finger, 2 months agoGreat extension. I've been using it for a while, and am generally pleased with what it does and the near complete problem-free functioning over time. It plays nicely with uBO and LocalCDN which provide a couple of the same features that this extension provides.
One problem has popped up with recent versions of Firefox though. Since there's been no update for this extension since February 2025, the cause may be those recent Firefox updates. As of writing this review, I'm using Firefox 149.0 (aarch64) on macOS 26.4. I do not have it installed in my Firefox Developer Edition install, and I do not use Chrome, so I am reporting this for the standard production Firefox releases.
I do not want to create a GitLab account to report a single issue and for no other reason as all my development is done using repos hosted on Codeberg and GitHub.
The problem: The context menu item for "Copy Clean Link Location" rarely if ever works now. It used to. It rarely if ever adds anything to the clipboard, even the unmodified, original link I'm trying to get a cleaned copy of. The few times I do get something when using the context menu item, key parameters meant to be removed by the extension are left in the URL that is added to the clipboard. But actually getting a copied link rarely works, and all that using it does is leave my clipboard untouched with the previously copied data ready to be pasted.
Fix that context menu issue and this is a five-star extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19806967, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fokeu, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Darias, 2 months ago