234327 - popup menu option: copy title to clipboard

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias Herp]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When right-clicking on a link, it is possible to create a bookmark for the link.
In offline mode, Mozilla can't check the linked URL for a page title, thus it
falls back to the link text (bug 163709), although there is a much more useful
title attribute which is used as a tootip; this might be the most common
usecase, but not necessarily the only one.

It would be nice to be able to copy the tooltip to the clipboard.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html
2. scroll to the "Layers don’t work! Why?" headline (no anchor name there, I'm
afraid)
3. right-click on the link "can be used instead"

Actual Results:  
There is no option to copy the title ("Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages:
Layers and LAYER Elements") to the clipboard.  When offline (I didn't try it
online), choosing "create bookmark for this link" will yield a bookmark, titled
"can be used instead" (bug 163709).

Expected Results:  
It should offer an option to copy the title to the clipboard.

Comment 1

[Jon Henry]

I couldn't find a dupe of this, so I'll at least move it out of Browser-General.
Bug 133661 has a discussion of a similar issue that got resolved as WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Charles Belov]

I would like to be able to have "Copy Title Attribute" and "Copy Alt Attribute" turn up in the right-click (Windows) or ctrl-click (Mac) context menu when calling up the context menu while clicking on an element that has such an attribute.

The use case that is turning up for me is Google Analytics.  If I am viewing a report listing multiple pages by page title, there is no easy way to get the URL for that page.  Furthermore, on the page, Google presents a shortened version of the page title it is reporting on, placing the whole page title in a title attribute.  I want to be able to rightclick on that element to copy the page title so I can search on it in Google to get to the page.

Comment 3

[t8av]

I support: Tab action "copy page title to clipboard" is needed.

This bug is almost 10 years old! Why wasn't this feature implemented in the tabs?

Currently I need to view the page source so I could copy the title.