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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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