Reviews for Word Count
Word Count by Trishul
45 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14635562, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Md Shahbaz Alam, 6 years agoReally helpful when you write lot many CFPs these days. :-)
- Rated 5 out of 5by JACKYwu, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14186837, 6 years agoWould be a very useful tool if it worked properly. It gives numbers around 2,500 words for anything more than that. Otherwise works great for shorter texts.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for reporting this, I will sort this out soon :)
EDIT =>
Hi there, v2.0 supports any length of text, thanks for your inputs that motivated me to work on it and fix it!
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Did you get a chance to try the new version? - Rated 1 out of 5by anyssia, 6 years agokept capping the count at 2927 words, no matter how many words on the page
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi there,
v2.0 supports any length of text, thanks for your inputs that motivated me to work on it and fix it!
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Did you get a chance to try the new version? - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14237522, 6 years agoonly counts to ~3k words, ~15k characters. nice for short texts, useless for longer stuff.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi there,
v2.0 supports any length of text, thanks for your inputs that motivated me to work on it and fix it!
Followup =>
Did you get a chance to try the new version? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14188625, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Doris, 7 years agoGreat little tool! I tried other add-ons, but this works best for me. Thank you! I like the little delay before the counter display autohides as I sometimes need to refer to it. I would love this more if it would have options for:
1- directly displaying the count in the context menu (so just quick look in one click);
2- display character count only, word only, or both (for extensive use, immediately seeing just what you need helps);
3- keyboard shortcut (although I did a little keyboard macro for myself so I only need to press one key).Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for using and loving it.
1- I am not sure if the APIs allow that(I will try the same :) )
2- yes that will be a plus(I will implement addon preferences for that)
3- That's an awesome idea(It will be really helpful if you can suggest any shortcut) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13201984, 7 years agoI have a long document (71 page/25321 words, when I made a control count in a word processor) for which the Word Count addition reported that the page contained 2497 words.
Thus, unfortunately, I must deem this addon to be unreliable for my use.
I did of course select the entire text. (I used the shortcut Cmd + A in Firefox for macOS.)Developer response
posted 7 years agoAs mentioned this addon only gives word count of selected text, I am not sure if all the text was selected, so it might have given the result only for selected text.
EDIT =>
Hi there,
v2.0 supports any length of text, thanks for your inputs that motivated me to work on it and fix it! - Rated 5 out of 5by Mo nessem, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12346924, 7 years agoBeautifully simple and incredibly useful for those of us who write for a living.
The only suggestion I would have is to include a keyboard shortcut. I rarely use the mouse when typing, so a shortcut would be great.Developer response
posted 7 years agoActually this is a great suggestion, let me check what best shortcut can be (not conflicting with others). - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13612474, 7 years agoGreat extension. It does exactly what you'd think it does. Nothing more, nothing less. Just how I like it.
My only suggestion to the developers is to allow users the ability to move the box, or have it autohide after X seconds. I just want to glance at the word or character count, not have it stay on my screen at the top right corner where I might accidentally close the browser instead of the Word Count popup box.
EDIT: okay, it did autohide for me, but it was more like 10ish seconds rather than 5. Regardless, this extension still does exactly what it should, so I will continue to use it.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for using word count, it counts :)
Currently, this uses default notification of browser(to keep it simple), and it autohides after ~5 sec. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13466438, 7 years agoIt does what it says and is not in my way when I don't want it. The addon is completely hidden until you right click.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bobi Bulgaria, 7 years agoVery useful add-on. Would be even better if you implement a separate counting of actual characters and spaces between words. Example:
Total words: 467
Total characters and spaces: 1395
Total characters: 1312
Total spaces: 83 - Rated 5 out of 5by AmyT, 7 years agoSuper handy add-on! I used to copy/paste text into a different tool to see the character count, but now I can do it right in my browser. Thanks Trishul!