URL Shortener Plus · Browser Extension 💻 Win/Mac/Linux

URL Shortener Plus 📌

Short links in one click 📌 Powered by spoo.me, the free and open-source link shortener, with no account needed 🚨

Shorten any link ⚡

Shorten the page you’re on in one click, or edit the link first ✏️ Then share it in any chat, email or post 👑

Copy in one click 🚀

Click the toolbar icon, or right-click any page › Open URL Shortener Plus, and copy your short link in one click 😍

Generate QR code 📷

Every short link comes with a QR code 🔎 Scan it and the page opens on your phone, with no cable and no typing 📱



Non-intrusive in the App icon

URL Shortener Plus: Non-intrusive in the App icon

URL Shortener

URL Shortener Plus: URL Shortener

News Tips and Tricks

URL Shortener Plus: News Tips and Tricks

Download

URL Shortener Plus

Visit the WebStore, Webstore

URL Shortener Plus

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URL Shortner Plus

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URL Shortener Plus




Changelog

v6.0 09/10/2026
🐞 Right-click menu reads “Open URL Shortener Plus” (the space was missing)
🐞 The mini tutorial’s close button shows “×” again (it showed “×”)
🐞 News & Tips messages show at most once a day
✨ NEW modern look for the messages and the mini tutorial: rounded, with a soft shadow and round buttons
🔒 Security improvements and no more warnings on the extension’s Errors page
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v5.8 21/09/2026
👻 TinyURL is deprecating old API forcing to preview before jump to link.
🚙 Extension now uses spoo.me URL shortener. Open source project and reliable.
v5.7 02/06/2024
📚 Google API to generate QRCode was shut down. Replaced by internal JS library that will work forever. Feature to QECode link with smartphone camera.
⚡ Updated Jquery from 3.6.4 to 3.7.1
v5.6 28/03/2024
🔗 Fixed Chrome links for the new WebStore Link format from chrome.google.com/webstore to chromewebstore.google.com => https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ghkafclcjholabkaldcjpcojoegcfdcl
📰 Auto-copy to clipboard the short-URL when Extension opens. Make extension easier and faster to use
🐞 Some bugfixes and improvements
v5.5 – 10/02/2024
🚧 Updated performance and bugfixes.
v5.4 10/04/2023
🚧 Updated Jquery library to v3.6.4
🚨 Updated IntroJs library to v6.0.0
😁 Updated Jquery-ContextMenu library to v2.9.2
💬 Updated Toastr library to v2.1.4
v5.3 – 26/10/2022
💣 Performance improvements for Chrome Manifest V3
💎 Improvements on Incognito Mode
🚧 Better integration with other WWEvents Extensions:
💾 https://jitt.wwevents.fun/downloads-for-google-chrome/
v5.1 – 29/09/2022
💎 First release 💎


Permissions

Browser Extension 💻 Win/Mac/Linux
  • “notifications” – Used to send desktop notifications. For example when a new message arrives or the App is updated.
  • “contextMenus” – Allows adding more settings when you right-click the App icon in the browser toolbar and in the browser context menu.
  • “storage” – Used to save settings on your local computer.
  • “system.display” – Used to detect the display size and position the Extension window (for example “Open panel in new window” or “Open URL Shortener Plus” from the right-click menu).
  • “unlimitedStorage” – Storage is limited to 5MB of data that may not be enough to store all configs.
  • “host_permissions” – Permission to access the page you are on and the URL shortener service (spoo.me), so that the short link and its QR code are ready in one click. Also used to show the Tips – Tricks – News and to allow intercommunication with other WWEvents Apps (i.e. Emojis).
  • “activeTab” – Permission to access the tab that is shown to the user when you click the App icon, to read its URL and shorten it in one click.
  • “tabs” – Used to read the URL of the page you are on in order to shorten it, also when the App is not in Popup mode (“Open panel in new window”).
  • “all_urls” – We cannot predict ahead of time which hosts/domains the user wants to shorten. The extension is capable of shortening any link/url/domain.