Instant Smart Quotes

Replace typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts as you type.
What is Instant Smart Quotes?
Instant Smart Quotes is a Firefox add-on that automatically replaces typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts. It supports over 50 languages and allows you to quickly enable or disable the instant replacements from the toolbar. The settings are saved per page and synced across devices. Text in backticks is ignored in favor of Markdown. Enhance your writing with beautiful typographically correct texts!

Add-on stats

Users: 81
Rating: 3.13 (8)
Version: 6.0.0 (Last updated: 2022-09-10)
Creation date: 2019-06-15
Weekly download count: 10
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
  • tabs
Size: 25.80K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Instant Smart Quotes (v6.0.0)
4.29 (28) 1,000
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Add-on summary

Replace typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts as you type. Instant Smart Quotes is the last extension you will need to write beautiful typographically correct texts.

  • Support for over 50 languages
  • Quickly enable and disable the instant replacements from the toolbar
  • Quickly change the language from the toolbar
  • All settings are saved per page and synched across all of your devices
  • Text in backticks will be ignored in favor of Markdown

Depending on which language you have set, the following chars will be replaced for language-specific replacements (comma-separated): ', ", >>, <<

Chars that will be replaced for no matter which language are the following (comma-separated): ‘, --, ---, …

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User reviews

by Eason Wong, 2023-06-16
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Instant Smart Quotes requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Instant Smart Quotes has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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