1000900 - Copying URLs from links or from the Awesome Bar should not be percent-encoded

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Kostas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click to open in a new tab this percent-encoded URL: http://www.iefimerida.gr/news/87219/h-mozilla-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B5-%CF%84%CE%B1-%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%B1-%CE%AD%CE%BE%CF%85%CF%80%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BB%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%BC%CE%B5-%C2%AB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B9%CF%87%CF%84%CF%8C%C2%BB-%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-firefox-os
The Awesome Bar in the new tab displays the decoded URL:
http://www.iefimerida.gr/news/87219/h-mozilla-ανακοίνωσε-τα-νέα-έξυπνα-τηλέφωνα-με-«ανοιχτό»-λογισμικό-firefox-os
2a. rightclick on the decoded URL of step #1 and press "Copy Link Location" , OR alternatively 
2b. click inside the Awesome Bar and copy the URL you visited in step 1
3. open eg notepad and the paste the copied URL.


Actual results:

The percent encoded URL is copied.


Expected results:

The decoded URL should be copied.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The decoded URL is often useless for other applications and based on http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt i would say that it's the right thing to copy the percent encoded URL

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #1)
> The decoded URL is often useless for other applications and based on
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt i would say that it's the right thing to
> copy the percent encoded URL

Agreed.