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Copy Plain Text 0.3

What is this?

This is a mozilla extension that lets you copies text without formatting. Use from the Edit or context menus.

Have you ever copied text from a website and pasted it into an email program, such as Thunderbird, but been frustrated that the text formatting (bold, italic, font, etc.) were copied with it? This extension copies the text without all the formatting.

How do I use it?
  1. Highlight text to copy
  2. Click Edit > Copy as Plain Text
  3. Now you can paste this plain text anywhere.
Options
Trim space around text
Removes any space before and after the text selected
Replace extra spaces
Replaces any occurrence of multiple spaces with a single space
Remove extra empty lines
Converts two or more empty lines into a single line
Make as default COPY action
Hijacks the default copy action to use this extenion to copy text.


Install
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Version History
v 0.3
04/17/2005
  • Fixed for FF 1.0.3
  • Added option to hijax default copy action
v 0.2
09/09/2004
  • Fixed bug with frames
  • Added more options to customize functionality
v 0.1
06/27/2004
  • Launched with basic functionality


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