Reviews for Shorten me - URL Shortener
Shorten me - URL Shortener by André Veríssimo
14 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ta, 3 years agoAmazing!
does what i need.
simple right click to shorten link.
Also being able to connect to my bit.ly account using API token so shorten links show up in my account is nice. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13004310, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MoOody, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nickrobinson, 6 years agoSimple, works great and it gets the job done with no messing. I love it. Thanks for this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15078228, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lahtag, 6 years agoExcellent Addons, simple, do what it is for perfectly. I would like to ask if there is any alternative as we are approaching de deadline of goo.gl going to go down end of March? Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14493293, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13713557, 7 years agoI love Google services, I love your add-on. I always had to manually go the Google URL shortener website but now its so blady easy.
Just hope its secure and the url do not get changed/modified.
PS: I do not often often rate add-ons, just doing so to offset, what I feel, are invalid reasons to rate down a very useful add on.
Update: Thank you for your response.
I've now added my own API key.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the feedback :)
Regarding security concerns, the code can and should be reviewed in https://github.com/averissimo/shorten-me *(or in the actual compressed file that is downloaded from firefox add-ons)*... I understand that it could be difficult for non-coders to do it.
The addon only has one call to an external service in this block: https://github.com/averissimo/shorten-me/blob/master/src/core.js#L92-L104
That then is copied to clipboard by running some javascript code in the current tab with really complicated code, but -- as of the time of writing -- it was the only way to do it *(even in examples from firefox)*
https://github.com/averissimo/shorten-me/blob/master/src/core.js#L20-L80 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13687951, 7 years agoUnfortunately I have the exact same issue as the previous user, the add-on has stopped accurately copying short links to the clipboard (old content remaining there instead). Have had to uninstall. Was good until now so hopefully can be fixed.
Update - that was on 57 (various versions of 57.0.x).
Update - and is now working again. Other shorteners are also iffy. Suspect a general FF problem. - Rated 5 out of 5by apometron, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jeffws, 7 years agoSo 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 agoWow great description and thanks for the kind words, I might use part of it to update the description a bit :) - Rated 5 out of 5by taja, 7 years agoThis 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 agoI appreciate the kind words and I'm glad you are satisfied with the addon.
André - Rated 5 out of 5by Taurean, 8 years agoWhile 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 8 years agoExtension 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