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Reviews for Shorten me - URL Shortener

Shorten me - URL Shortener by André Veríssimo

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  • by Firefox user 13507753, 7 years ago
    Great addon!
    BTW can you add settings for the notification, like time, sound & on/off ?

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Firefox API does not allow to control any of these options, they are either firefox global options (which I could not find), or system-wide options for notifications.

    Another user suggested disabling the notifications, would that work for you? (personally I don't like it that much because in bad connections the link creation is not immediate)

    edit: link to API description https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/notifications/NotificationOptions
  • by Firefox user 12955598, 7 years ago
    make it compatible with firefox mobile and personal account of bitly

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    In theory it should be compatible with firefox mobile, but I tested and it does nothing. Maybe the API is not fully implemented in mobile.

    I would like to implement the bit.ly backend option, but using a default key would severely limit the number of links that can be shorten.

    ps. thanks for the feedback!
  • by PirateRussell, 7 years ago
    I'm a fan of Shorten Me, but not of Google.... It would be perfect if I could choose among some other services, ie Bit.ly.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    I'll look into integrating bit.ly, my attempts so far were failed because I could not find a way to have a generic key that supported more than 10.000 calls a day (which is very restrictive)... I must be missing something as previous extensions such as shortly was using bitly.

    thanks for the feebback!
  • by Firefox user 13445044, 7 years ago
    I need the original URL shortner that was there before Mozilla updated.

    Shortly URL shortner is the name.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    This extension does not have anything to do with Shortly!

    This extension was created just because of that. I was a fan of shortly and it did not work on the first versions of nightly.

    I believe the rating you gave is unfair, try out the extension and change or not based on your experience of "Shorten me", not because you are displeased with something else.

    ps. I warned the developer way before the update in shortly's github page.. if that was working then I would not have created this one.

    edit: this is the extension you are looking for: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortly-url-shortener/

    or its github address: https://github.com/aloshbennett/shortly
  • by jeffws, 7 years ago
    So many of the URL shorteners either 1) don't work with Firefox Quantum (tinyURL, bit.ly, to name a couple) or 2) require several steps to create the short URL. Shorten Me uses goo.gl and it works in one click. You don't need even to select the long URL. As long as you are on its page, just click the button ("S") and it saves the shortened URL to your clipboard. Then just paste. Easy peasy. Very nice.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Wow great description and thanks for the kind words, I might use part of it to update the description a bit :)
  • by taja, 7 years ago
    This is one of the best and most straightforward URL shorteners I've used. It can be used to shorten the current page as well as a selected link, and it works with FF57. Excellent.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    I appreciate the kind words and I'm glad you are satisfied with the addon.

    André
  • by Fleckeye, 7 years ago
    Wish this worked, but does not copy to clipboard.
    Windows 10, Firefox 54.0.1

    Edit 7/22/16
    On a different computer, it works fine. I'll attempt to replicate the issue on my laptop again.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    The new version has a better implementation that should work or give an error message if fails to copy / network error.

    It only shows popup when it actually copies :)

    only restriction I encountered was in addons.mozilla.org (but that is a known restriction)
  • by Taurean, 7 years ago
    While it pops up a notification, it doesn't copy the shortened URL to the clipboard.

    RE: Firefox 54 x64 on Windows 10

    EDIT on 7/23: It works just fine now. Thanks!

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Extension was presenting the popup before actually copying to clipboard, which could take a couple seconds more.

    1.0.7 has a better implementation that executes the code faster and only presentes popups when it actually copies (or fails to do so)

    ps. Thanks for the reply, I was only testing in Windows 7