Instant Smart Quotes

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29 ratings

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11 support issues

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Graham Sanders

Mar 14, 2025

Extension disabled

Chrome prompted me to remove the Instant Smart Quotes extension, and I clicked yes without thinking. When I realized it had been removed, I went back to reinstall it but it is greyed out now. Is there anyway to update the extension to make it available again? I am going crazy with all these ugly straight quotes! Thanks.

Jayson Hutchison

Mar 7, 2025

New line jumping

Whenever I press enter for a new line and the line is blank, the cursor jumps to the beginning of the text field.

For me, this has made this useful extension annoying enough to not use it for now.

Anatoly IVANOV

Feb 26, 2021

Cursor position jumps to beginning of text field (div with contenteditable param) after line break

Hallo Florian,

Starting sometime end of 2020, your JS code does not longer maintain the cursor position after a Shift+Enter line break — the cursor jumps to the beginning of text field or div with contenteditable set to true.

Also happens with emoji insertion, as reported earlier by @Serhat ATALAY.

Rendering an otherwise fantastic extension unuseable for longer text entry, unfortunately.

Ping me for any debug info, I'm a JS dev as well.

— Anatoly IVANOV .com

Christopher R.

Nov 24, 2020

Windows Application

I’m currently using your Chrome extension which works absolutely like a charm, but I was also wondering if it would ever be possible for an extension such as this one to be developed as a standalone application that would be used in the Windows environment. Currently I’m using an AutoHotkey script which is supposed to replicate the behavior of this extension outside of Chrome, which functions almost similarly to the Instant Smart Quotes extension. Of course it has its own issues, but those are what led me to inquire about the possibility of this extension becoming an application.

Charles Meyerson

Oct 27, 2020

This extension, Opera and Blogger

Any way to get this extension to work with Blogger on Opera? It does work with Chrome very well!), but most Chrome extensions work with Opera, too. This one seems not to. I'd be happy to pay for a version that did.

Charles Meyerson

Sep 18, 2020

Doesn't reliably work with Opera and Blogger

Just installed this and it worked flawlessly … until it didn't. Not sure what changed. But I've installed and reinstalled several times and can't get it to work again. Suggestions welcome!

Serhat ATALAY

Aug 12, 2020

Cursor jumps to beginning when inserting objects into the text box

I've been using this extension for years, and I did suggest it to some of my translator/editor friends. For the last couple of months, we've been running into a weird problem. Whenever I insert something other than text into the text field, (for example an emoji in whatsapp web client), the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the text field.

I'm mainly using this extension on a translation tool, where I need to insert tags in the text boxes (to signify a bold font, make a text hyperlink etc.) And as soon as I insert a tag, the cursor moves to the beginning of the text box, which makes it really hard to work with. It is the exact same behaviour with the whatsapp web client, which should be easier to test.

Other than this hiccup, I really love this little extension and hope to use it in the future again.

Jon M

Jan 30, 2020

“Guillemet” quotation marks

To create French-style guillemet quotation marks, the extension requires the user to type << and >>. It would be much easier if the extension would automatically change the standard quotation mark key (“) to a guillemet, since this is the key that French-speakers actually use (MS word autocorrects “ to << for example)

Roly Perera

Aug 28, 2019

Undo not working

Hi, I love the idea. However I'm using Chrome 74.0.3729.131 on Ubuntu and smart quotes interfere with Undo: it's not possible to undo past the insertion of any smart quote!

Eric Ressner

Mar 15, 2019

Am I doing something wrong?

Trying to turn the app ON for use in a WordPress dashboard. I clicked on the big black dot, chose a language and clicked ON. The icon changed to "OFF", and no matter what I do, I can't change it to "ON". I'm using a Toshiba Chromebook.