316886 - Right-click on toolbar link: "Copy" should be labelled "Copy Link Location"

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

Right-click on toolbar link: what does "Copy" mean? I think it means "Copy Link Location", and it should be so labelled. 

Paste can paste into both the name and the link: that really isn't clear. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

> I think it means "Copy Link Location", and it should be so labelled.

No, it actually copies the complete Bookmark entry. You can then paste this for example somewhere into the Bookmarks Manager (or in another place on the personal toolbar). So I think "Copy" is correct here.

Comment 2

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

Well, for ages I had been clicking and copying the URL from the URL bar, as it didn't look like it did the job. Could it say "Copy bookmark", as that might nudge people into thinking it copies the URL?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

it copies different kind of data flavours, and paste depending on the target, text, html, a place node... so Copy is correct

Comment 4

[Dan Jacobson]

Gee, I was going to say
In History Library, right click "copy" should be "copy link location"
also.

So what if one wants to paste the whole line somewhere other than a bookmark?

Anyway it's all the designer's fault for making it do different things in different contexts.

Why not make two entries in the menu, and then Firefox could be free from such boobytraps.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130614 Firefox/23.0 Iceweasel/23.0a2