It's great until it's not. In my case a [var]=/[value] becomes [var]=%2F[value] and broke the website. Please consider, for the least, adding a whitelist function.

In theory a great extension, but it has a lot of open bugs, that make many websites pretty much unusable.
One example that I was affected is Github: github[.]com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/410
It took me a while to figure out that ClearURLs was the root cause for my issues.

It has worked great,but lately as someone else has mentioned it causes my computer and the CPU to go crazy, several websites are affected, DuckDuckGo, Google, YouTube, Soundcloud and more. I spent days now trying to troubleshoot what was causing it (I have many extensions) and the moment I disabled this one, the cpu fans slowed down and my system is back to normal. Responsive and snappy.

Useful for many websites but it completely breaks google sheets search function. The search bar just doesn't appear with this on. Please add a method to whitelist specific domains.

Breaks Google Spreadsheet, with this addon enabled all charts from spreadsheet disappear. No way to whitelist spreadsheet domain so the only way is to disable the whole extension.

A great idea, but needs a way to define exclusions. Breaks desirable behaviour, for example, using Amazon wish lists.

Breaks Google Sheets pop-ups and probably some other (Google) pages too, see: reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1gggcsb/google_sheets/. Other than that it hasn't impeded my browsing, so it does seem to work.

Worked quite good until recently when some side menus in Google Docs stoped working entirely. The issue disappered as soon as I turned off this add-on when I was checking them one-by-one...

Works good for most site, but it would be nice if it also stripped tracking URL from AliExpress. Opera browser, can do this out of the box no addons. So it should be possible with an update to the plugin.

I like it, sadly I noticed its breaking Google sheets. Can't use Ctrl+F with this enabled. :/

it's been pretty good so far, but prevents a couple of websites from working, and there's no way to whitelist sites, as far as i can find

It used to work without problems, but recently stopped google docs (sheets) from creating dialogs or pop ups such as Crtl+F...

seconding other reviews, usually works perfectly behind the scene but recently breaks the find hotkey in google sheets for some reason

usually works quite unnoticable in the background, but recently it started blocking the find-and-replace function in google sheets

This addon blocks hotkeys in Google Docs. There is no whitelist feature in this addon.

Moja ocena to 10/10

Prevents AliExpress.us from loading. Disabling the add-on fixes the issue.

This isn't so much a review of this addon as it is a complaint about Mozilla. I don't understand why Mozilla "recommends" this addon but does not recommend Neat URL, when I can add custom patterns to the latter but not to the former. I'm convinced ClearURLs only has more users because it has been blessed with a quasi-official "recommendation" from Mozilla, even it lacks functionality which is available with another addon.

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Import Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool + activate Adguard Url tracking protection and there doesn't seem to be a real need for this anymore.

ClearURLs is an extension I've used for about a year, but I've recently disabled for the time being.

On the surface, ClearURLs is an excellent extension and it provides all the things it claims to, and it works, exactly as described.

The problem really comes from when it doesn't work- and how annoying it is to deal with in those situations.

ClearURLs lacks what I would call an extremely essential feature for an extension like this. A Whitelist. When ClearURLs breaks something, your only option(s) are to report it to the developer, and disable it until you are past whatever thing it broke, and then turn it back on.

This is tremendously annoying. To make matters worse, from what I can tell- the development of this extension has been relatively stale in the last few years. I'm sure the developer has plenty of good reasons why they haven't been working on it too much, but that doesn't change the reality of the situation.

Whitelisting has been an issue on their issue tracker for over 4 years. There's been an open merge request that added the feature for at least a year which hasn't been merged, and in that time, there's only been a handful of commits, usually just what I consider "maintenance mode" sorts of pushes. Stuff like "oh firefox changed a thing, I'll just remove this little bit here then" stuff.

On top of that, it's clear that the issue tracker is full of reports, many of which are clear duplicates and it really isn't being maintained all that well. Obviously developing extensions takes time and effort, like any software so I won't really hold that against them, but still- it seems a little scatterbrained to me.

Regardless, ClearURLs is fine for what it is, I just think a few small feature upgrades would take it from being just pretty good sometimes to truly being excellent, and arguably an essential online privacy extension. It just currently annoys me too much to use it regularly.