PlainPaste

Automatically pastes as plain text unless overridden. Hold Alt to keep formatting.

Ctrl + V → always plain text. One tiny extension fixes copy‑and‑paste chaos on any page with a text box. 🛑 Why you need it "Paste without formatting" muscle‑memory fail – nobody remembers Ctrl + Shift + V or ⌘‑Shift‑Option‑V every time. Random fonts & colours ruin emails, tickets and wiki pages. Manual clean‑up wastes minutes a day. ✨ Key features Automatic plain‑text paste – hit Ctrl/⌘ + V like normal; we silently strip HTML, CSS, tracking IDs and hidden tables. Hold Alt/Option to bypass – need rich formatting just once? Press the modifier while pasting. Works inside iframes – nested editors are fully covered. All text inputs supported – text, email, search, url, tel, number, password, textareas, and contenteditable rich editors. Smart‑quote normalization (optional) – converts curly quotes, em/en dashes, ellipses and non‑breaking spaces to clean ASCII. Optional paste confirmation – a tiny toast confirms each plain paste, off by default. Per‑site toggle – click the toolbar icon ➜ flip "Active on this site". A badge shows OFF on disabled sites. Options page – view, add or remove every disabled hostname in one place. Customizable keyboard shortcut – assign your own key for one‑shot "paste with formatting" at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Zero back‑end – no servers, no cloud, no accounts. 100% local. Minimal permissions – only storage, activeTab, contextMenus, scripting. No clipboard or tabs permission needed. Open‑source – review the code or fork on GitHub. ChromeOS & Chromebook friendly – fixes what the OS can't. 🚀 How it works A lightweight content script listens for paste events, grabs text/plain from your clipboard, and replaces the original HTML before it hits the page. If you're holding Alt, or the site is on your disabled list, PlainPaste steps aside. 🔐 Privacy We literally can't see what you paste: No network calls – the extension never contacts a server. ⌨️ Keyboard cheatsheet Action — Windows / Linux — macOS Plain paste — Ctrl + V — ⌘ + V Keep formatting (one‑shot, hold while pasting) — Alt + Ctrl + V — ⌥ + ⌘ + V Force‑rich paste shortcut — configurable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts 🔄 Changelog v1.2 — May 2026 - Reliability: now runs inside iframes, so editors embedded in nested frames work correctly. - Coverage: every text input type supported, including email, search, url, tel, number. - Modern insert path using the Selection API — better compatibility with React‑based and other modern editors. - Faster: settings cached locally, no per‑paste round‑trip to the service worker. - New options page with a full disabled‑sites manager. - New optional smart‑quote / em‑dash / ellipsis / non‑breaking‑space normalization. - New optional paste‑confirmation toast. - New configurable keyboard shortcuts for force‑rich paste and toggle‑site. - Right‑click the toolbar icon for quick actions. - Slimmer permissions: dropped clipboardRead and tabs. - Cleaner UI: toggling no longer reloads the tab. v1.0 — May 2025 - First release: global plain‑text paste, Alt override, per‑site switch, dark/light icon. 🙋 FAQ Does it break copy‑paste inside rich editors like Google Docs? No — Docs has its own JS clipboard, but PlainPaste waits until the paste event hits the editor and swaps in plain text safely. Can I change the modifier key? The Alt/Option bypass is fixed, but you can assign a separate keyboard shortcut for one‑shot "paste with formatting" at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Edge / Brave / Opera? Works anywhere Chrome extensions run.