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    Copying the URL from the URL bar should be plain text

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    • vacord
      vacord @illostraight last edited by

      @illostraight I found a work around that is only a little bit dumb! I just wanted to copy part of a URL to use in an ad setup, so I didn't copy the ?etcetcetc part at the end, and it worked fine. So what you can do is simply add a "?" at the end of a URL in the URL bar, and then copy everything but that "?" and it won't paste the page title as a hyperlink.

      I'll be doing it like this now, and hopefully it helps others.

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      • illostraight
        illostraight last edited by

        TYVM, @vacord - That does work. 👍 If it's a really long url, do u know of any quick way or keystroke to get to the end in the address bar?

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        • vacord
          vacord @illostraight last edited by

          @illostraight Yes, on a mac, just get your cursor in the URL bar then press command+(right arrow) and it should go to the end.

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          • illostraight
            illostraight @vacord last edited by

            @vacord Super! TYVM! 👍

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            • thoughtcrime
              thoughtcrime last edited by

              yes, I'm having the same issue.

              I hope they get this fixed.

              When I copy and paste the URL, I don't get the URL but a hyperlink instead.

              Very annoying!

              It started this way since the last update.

              Please, Opera fix this!

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              • Hesperia
                Hesperia last edited by

                Hi everyone, I am glad I am not the only one who has faced problems with this. Dear Opera, please, allow users to enable and disable this feature. Thanks.

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                • fuch
                  fuch last edited by

                  Hi everybody,

                  I surf with Opera for Mac (version : 69.0.3686.77)

                  How to modify the paste behavior on Opera ? I don't want to paste a title but an URL ?

                  Example : when I copy this subforum (https://forums.opera.com/category/12/opera-for-mac), I would like to paste the URL and not its title (Opera for Mac | Opera forums).

                  Thanks.

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                  • xander09
                    xander09 last edited by

                    The "Paste and Match Style" action (keyboard shortcut: cmd-option-shift-V) will generally paste the unformatted plain text URL in the destination app.

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                    • fuch
                      fuch last edited by

                      Is any extension or parameter to modify this behaviour ?

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Why is this still an issue?
                        I have the same problem and it makes me reconsider my webbrowser-choice.
                        Is there any fix for that?

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                        • znamor
                          znamor last edited by

                          Same issue here and I have Version:70.0.3728.119 of Opera and System:Mac OS X 10.14.6 64-bit (Mojave on MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)) The keyboard shortcut: "cmd-option-shift-V" does work, but thats not a standard behavior people are used to for a URL copy/paste operation. Opera DEV team - kindly enable this link header VS plain text copying option as a feature please?
                          Many thanks in advance!

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                          • nbrown
                            nbrown last edited by

                            I'm so glad I found this thread with others not loving this "feature." Would love to see a enable/disable option ASAP! Thank you for others who mentioned the paste without formatting keyboard commands, that'll work for now at least. Hope this get's addressed soon!

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                            • gertrude66
                              gertrude66 last edited by

                              hey, has anyone found a solution for this?

                              thx

                              g

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                              • stracker-phil
                                stracker-phil last edited by

                                OSX has a keyboard shortcut to paste text in plain-text:

                                ⌘+⌥+V (CMD + Option + V)

                                With this keyboard shortcut, the address is always pasted as an URL instead of a rich-text link element.

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                                • Chrisintucson
                                  Chrisintucson last edited by

                                  I may have found a work around for pasting into iMessage. Right click in iMessage (where you intend to paste), scroll to substitutions , mark Smart Links with a check mark. iMessage workaround copy.png

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                                  • Chrisintucson
                                    Chrisintucson last edited by

                                    Never mind my post about a work around, it only worked once. Damn.

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                                    • sc99
                                      sc99 last edited by

                                      Command-option-shift-V does work, but it took a lot for me to find this thread and suss that out.

                                      I don't know any other app that does this -- no browser that I know of copies the formatted URL and shows only the title. Since it's apparently a "feature" in Opera, it should be something we can turn off via a preference. Might seem like a small thing, but it's led to a lot of hair pulling, especially when I'm pasting into iMessage. I am seriously considering switching to Firefox over this.

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                                      • minerva42
                                        minerva42 last edited by

                                        I'm done working around this. (I've been clicking in the URL, which highlights it, clicking again to get a cursor, moving to the end and adding a space, and then copying that. Which pastes as text but not as a link, at least in Apple Notes, so it's still a problem.)
                                        Going back to Firefox for my work browser.

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                                        • sc99
                                          sc99 @minerva42 last edited by

                                          @minerva42
                                          Instead of pasting with command-v, use shift-command-option-v.

                                          That works for me -- no formatted text, just the url.

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