Share link via email Chrome Extension Analysis
Automation & Workflow EfficiencyChrome extension ID: ejdbkikfbnnhmachnnomjfgjbgkcnjkb
A Chrome extension that adds a button and context menu item to send the current page URL, a selected link, or selected text via email. It integrates with major providers like Gmail, Outlook, AOL, and Yahoo Mail, and includes the page title automatically.
Overview
Installs
70K+
Rating
★ 3.9
195 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English (United Kingdom)
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Automation & Workflow Efficiency
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
The product is positioned as a productivity utility that simplifies sharing web content via email. It emphasizes flexibility by supporting multiple email clients and allowing users to customize the text surrounding the shared URL.
Inferred product pattern
Simple wrapper utility for triggering mailto links or webmail compose URLs.
Review-backed pain points
Users frequently report the extension stops working after browser or operating system updates. Specific frustrations include the 'Share page via email' option disappearing from the context menu and failures to redirect to the correct compose screen in Outlook and AOL.
Observed feature gaps
Lack of rich link previews (teaser frames) and occasional failure to generate clickable links in the resulting email.
- Frequent link sharers
- Professionals using diverse email clients
- Users who prefer email communication over social media sharing
- Sharing current page URLs via email
- Sending curated links with custom boilerplate text
- Quickly emailing selected text or specific links from a page
- Utility of boilerplate text formatting
- Convenience of supporting multiple email clients
- Preferable compared to other similar extensions when functioning
- Breakage following Chrome or OS updates
- Compatibility issues with Outlook and AOL
- Poor UI visibility and unnecessary clicks
- Inconsistent functionality across different devices
- Performance complaints detected
- No pricing friction observed as the tool appears to be free.
Support
Users express frustration that developers have not addressed long-standing concerns and bugs mentioned in the reviews.
Reliability
Significant reliability issues reported, including total failure after updates and intermittent availability of the context menu.
Privacy
No privacy or security complaints observed.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 4
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 1
- Developer contact
- Support link
- Version: 4.0.3
- Size: 74.03KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Support links: https://github.com/Cobote/share-link-via-email/issues
