• is.gd failures are no longer reported as unreachable. Neither service uses HTTP status codes to signal failure — is.gd answers 200 OK with either a JSON errorcode object or a plain-text error line (despite documenting 400/406/502/503 for its four error codes), and TinyURL answers 200 OK with the body Error. The add-on trusted those bodies: an is.gd error page made the JSON parse throw and surfaced the misleading "The URL shortening service could not be reached," a JSON error object produced undefined on the clipboard alongside a success message, and a TinyURL error copied the literal string Error. Response bodies are now parsed and validated before the status is considered, so the service's own explanation ("Sorry, the URL you entered is on our internal blacklist") is shown whichever status accompanies it.
• is.gd rate limiting is now identified as such. Error code 3 is the documented per-IP cap of 200 shortenings per hour; it is reported with a note to wait and retry rather than as an unexplained failure.
• Unrecognised service failures no longer show raw internal text. A body that is not a documented API error — such as the plain-text Error, database insert failed is.gd returns while its backend is refusing new records — is reported as "could not create the link right now. Try again shortly, or switch services in options," and never reaches the clipboard.
• "Send to" now follows the selected service. With is.gd selected, the send-to actions still opened TinyURL.com's creation page; they now open the creation page of the chosen service. The menu entries are relabelled to match ("Send to is.gd") and are rebuilt when the service setting changes.

• Every action is marked on the toolbar icon. "Show Notifications" is off by default, so a failed shortening produced no visible result at all — leaving the previous clipboard contents in place, which is easily mistaken for success and pasted instead of the intended link. A brief badge on the toolbar icon now reports the outcome of every action, green for success and red for failure, in the same colours as the on-page message. It is independent of the notification setting, appears on every tab including those Firefox will not inject the content script into (about: pages, addons.mozilla.org, the PDF viewer, view-source), and clears itself after a few seconds. "Show Notifications" now governs the on-page message alone. No new permissions are required.

• Error messages name the service that failed ("is.gd returned an error") rather than the generic "URL shortening service."

All notable changes to the Firefox add-on are documented here. Versions use a date-based scheme (YYYY.M.D).

• Minimum Firefox version raised to 140 (142 on Firefox for Android). Firefox 140 is the current ESR line, keeping the add-on available to ESR users; the data collection consent declaration is supported from 142, so 140 and 141 ignore it. Older browsers keep the previous release; they simply stop receiving updates.

• Corrected the declared data collection category from websiteActivity to browsingActivity. The previous declaration was inaccurate: websiteActivity covers interaction data such as scrolling, clicking, and typing, none of which the add-on collects. browsingActivity — "specific URLs" of pages you visit — correctly describes the one thing that is transmitted: the URL you choose to shorten, sent to the shortening service. No behavior changed; only the disclosure was wrong.

New: Optional TinyURL API key. Add a token from your TinyURL.com account to create links through your account (with click analytics in your dashboard). Applies to the TinyURL service; leave it blank to keep using the free, no-account service.

Redesigned options page with light/dark theme support and clearer, fully clickable settings.

Rebuilt on Manifest V3 for modern Firefox, with reliability improvements across the shortening and clipboard actions.

All existing options remain: TinyURL & is.gd, preview links, "use shortest URL," notifications, and the create / send-to / from-clipboard menu items.

Added the ability to assign a keyboard shortcut to create a TinyURL. The options screen appearance has been updated to support dark mode.

Changed the options code to address an issue where the options are ignored under certain situations.

Addresses the issue in options where the URL Shortening Service would reset to TinyURL.

Added support for https://is.gd to create the short URL. It was brought to my attention when clicking a link created by https://tinyurl.com, the browser is forwarded to an intermediary site that sets cookies used for tracking. I suggest you go into the options of this new version and select "is.gd" as the URL Shortening Service.

Added an option to create TinyURLs that stop at a preview page instead of directly redirecting to the target page.

Added a menu item to support creating a TinyURL from text you have already copied to your clipboard. Please note, if you try to create a TinyURL from a TinyURL you will receive an error.

Added options to select context menu items independently. If only one item is enabled, it will appear directly in the context menu. If more than one item is enabled, they will be grouped into a sub-menu.

Added right click support to create TinyURLs for the current webpage from the browser tab and directly on the webpage.

Changed the method used to open a new tab when using the "Send to TinyURL.com" option to fix a condition that prevented the browser from opening a new tab.. Also improved the extension options appearance in mobile versions of Firefox.

Added a new context menu support! Now you can right click on links in a web page to generate a TinyURL.

Added a new menu option to send the URL to TinyURL.com directly, opening a new tab.

To keep notification support, and to read the links from the page, the notification behavior and permissions had to be adjusted. Notifications now appear within the web page, not as a popup connected to the icon. This change was necessary to support adding context menus since there is no way to show the popup notification when using menu items. Please let me know if you would like additional options for the new notifications.

The options have been moved to local storage (from the sync storage) to allow different options to be applied to different devices.

The "Show Notifications" option defaults to off when first installed.

Fixed bug that prevented the popup notifications from working after a browser restart.

Added the following features:

Use Shortest URL
Use the original URL if it is smaller than the TinyURL.

Show Notifications
Display a brief message containing the result.

These new features can be turned on or off from the options page.

Initial release.