If you’re like most Firefox users, you probably use the browser to do a variety of things, from browsing the web to working on email. But sometimes you need to remove text formatting from websites so that they look more like they were written by someone else. There are a few ways to do this in Firefox, but the easiest way is to use the “Formatting” tab in the Options bar. There, you can choose whether or not to add text formatting to websites. If you choose this option, Firefox will add a number of different types of formatting, such as bold and italics, underlines and underline points, and even color coding. But there’s one other way to remove text formatting from websites: using a “customize” button in the address bar. This button will take you to a page where you can select which type of formatting (bold, italics, underlines, etc.) you want Firefox to apply when viewing your website. So if you’re looking for an easy way to remove text formatting from websites in Firefox, try using one of these two methods first!

Before

For our example we chose an article that had embedded links, bold section headers, and varying sizes of text. The “Context Menu” only offers a single “Copy Command” and there is no doubt that the formatting will also be copied.

Here is how the text copied from our example article looked after being pasted into Microsoft Word. It is easy to see the intact links, bold formatting, and multiple text sizes. Not very nice to work with is it? But it is very easy to fix…

After

Here is our example article and “Context Menu” after installing the Copy Plain Text extension. Now you can easily chose between retaining the formatting or totally eliminating it when you copy the text.

This is much better and you can easily do whatever you desire with the text.

Options

The options for Copy Plain Text are easy to sort through…simply enable or disable features to suit your needs. Notice that there is an option to make it the “default copy action”.

Conclusion

If you have been looking for an easier way to remove formatting from the webpage text that you copy in Firefox, then this is definitely the extension to add to your browser.

Links

Download the Copy Plain Text extension (Mozilla Add-ons)