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TinyURL by Robert A Moreno II

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Review by Talamaur42
by Talamaur42, 5 years ago
11 reviews
  • by Jean Lo, 8 months ago
    Excellent addon, and very responsive maintainer! Very simple and functional. Supports is.gd and setting a keyboard shortcut.
  • by Tausif Ahmed, 10 months ago
  • by Black🏴‍☠️Sails, 4 years ago
    It should have an option to automatically create tiny url from the clipboard, rather than the page you're looking at.

    and I think the option to display notification should be enabled by default

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Thank you for the suggestions. I will enable the display notifications by default in the next version.

    The current version supports creating a TinyURL from the clipboard using an option in the add-ons menu. Can you provide more information on how you would like this to work?
  • by Firefox user 13912686, 4 years ago
    Simple, fast, easy. Does what it says - instantly creates a short URL of your currently active tab by clicking on the toolbar icon & puts it on the clipboard ready for pasting where you want.
  • by Firefox user 14874462, 4 years ago
    Wish I had discovered this sooner, it's great for those long Zoom recording URL's!
  • by Firefox user 12193918, 5 years ago
    The TinyUrl service routes through VigLink (an advertising/tracking company) that sets tracking cookies.
    I reported it to the developer, and on the same day he added support for another shortener (is.gd)

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    The add-in has been updated to work with is.gd as well, so you don't need to use the service provided by tinyurl.com if you choose not to.
  • by Firefox user 12475774, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 12996150, 5 years ago
    Does what it claims. No muss, no fuss. Nice work.
  • by Mike Webb, 5 years ago
    Super convenient and intuitive!
  • by Michael Woffenden, 5 years ago
    Very convenient and simple and the popup notification option is excellent!

    I'd love to see these options:

    - redirect to the TinyURL site
    - ability to create a custom TinyURL

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Thank you for the feedback. I added the redirect option to version 2019.9.27.22. I looked into adding the alias too, but the TinyURL.com API doesn't support it, so I need to write a bit more code to create it using a different method (pulling it from their website directly, and some kind of interface to let you enter the name). It's going to be added, but it's going to take a little while.

    Edit: I decided not to support the custom alias function until the TinyURL.com API support it. Using their website, then scraping it to pull the info programmatically seems wrong and would cause issues if the page layout changed. While this is still on my list, it's being put aside until proper support is available.