Copying the URL from the URL bar should be plain text

[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.

[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.

[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.

[fuch]

fuch last edited by

Is any extension or parameter to modify this behaviour ?

[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?

[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!

[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!

[gertrude66]

gertrude66 last edited by

hey, has anyone found a solution for this?

thx

g

[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.

[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.

[Chrisintucson]

Chrisintucson last edited by

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

[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.

[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.

[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.