Ability to drag-and-drop links from Opera to a text document.
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OpraUsr last edited by
It would be great to add the ability to drag-and-drop links from Opera directly to a text document. Right now, if we want to grab a link and add it to a text document, we have to right-click the link and select "copy link address" than paste it in the document. In contrast to other chrome-based browsers, we can simply drag-and-drop the link to the document which is extremely more efficient if we want to copy multiple links.
A typical scenario might be having a YouTube page open with multiple suggested videos, and needing to grab links for 10 of these videos to send to someone. We could simply drag and drop these 10 links into a text document in a matter of seconds. Currently, we have to right-click each link, select "Copy link address," and then paste each link individually, which is much more time-consuming.
I think that would be a great feature to add.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Just did a simple test at https://example.com/ in Opera 113.0.5230.32 64-bit on Windows 11 23H2. I dragged the "more information" link down to the taskbar, hovered over Notepad++'s taskbar button to bring it into focus, continued dragging and dropped into a blank open document that I had open. That seemed to work fine at least.
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OpraUsr last edited by OpraUsr
So I guess the functionality is implemented on Windows, but it doesn’t seem to be implemented on Linux (Ubuntu). I tried dragging a link to Sublime Text, the default text editor, and LibreOffice Writer, but nothing worked. I'm using Opera 13.0.5230.32 64 bit also.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@OpraUsr Using the snap package or flatpak package or deb package of Opera?
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OpraUsr last edited by
@burnout426 From the Snap package. I installed it using the Ubuntu Software app.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@OpraUsr I don't know if it will matter, but temporarily install the deb package and see if it works there. Maybe the Snap package of Opera doesn't have a permission set. Worth a try as a test. If it works with the deb version, perhaps Opera can fix the Snap version.
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OpraUsr last edited by
@burnout426 Ok. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try to install the deb package on a VM running Ubuntu and I'll let you know if the drag-and-drop link functionality is working.
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OpraUsr last edited by
@burnout426 I just installed the .deb package (version 113.0.5230.47) and the drag-and-drop functionality doesn't work either. So it's probably safe to conclude that it's not implemented at all on Linux.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@OpraUsr If other browsers can do it, I personally would consider it a bug in Opera that you can report at https://opera.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/9/group/11/create/6 and post the bug number here afterwards.
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