This Firefox extension is the first in the Firefox Evangelism series. It is so practical that one will wonder why this was not an included feature to begin with.

It is the Copy Plain Text extension and it will allow you to copy a portion of a web page and paste it somewhere else without any of the text formating or internet coding that is often a part of a web page. Their description reads like this…

Have you ever copied something to Thunderbird or Office and been annoyed that the text formatting (bold, font size, etc) came with it? Don’t you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!

This might be helpful on a site like Bible Gateway in sermon preparation. You simply would highlight the Biblical text as normal for a cut and paste operation, but then rather than hitting “ctrl + c” or using the “copy” feature when you right click on the highlighted text, simply find the “copy as plain text” option. After right clicking, then you can paste it into whatever application you are working on. This keeps whatever you copy in the same font you are working in and copies it over without links to other sites.

It keeps your cutting and pasting simple and clean, and keeping things simple is good, is it not?

Do you have a Firefox extension you love? Please contact me with the link and a sentence or two as to what the extension does. I make a master list at the end of the month and post that list with a link back to the one making the suggestion.  (You could also comment with the extension and I will add it to the list.)