Closed Bug 479039 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

when copy URL from location bar to clipboard, you will get url-encoded URL in clipboard

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
3.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

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Details

(Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2010-11-15])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) On copy text from location bar, text in clipboard is url-encoded so it containst many %. URL like this: http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelený_čaj will be copied as: http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelen%C3%BD_%C4%8Daj Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open url with diacritical chars like http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelený_čaj 2. copy text from location bar to clipboard 3. paste text from clipboard to any text box Actual Results: I will get url-encoded URL from location bar. Expected Results: I expect to get URL in utf-8 string or so.
Summary: when copy to clipboard, you will get url-encoded URL in clipboard → when copy URL from location bar to clipboard, you will get url-encoded URL in clipboard
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
This is intentional, but subject to revision. See bug 408890 for some discussion.
Just wanted to throw my support behind *not* fixing this "bug". Forget Unicode - many sites use paths in URLs containing ASCII characters that are invalid for URL paths, and many sites use fairly simple regular expressions to extract URLs that break when faced with such characters in paths... The end result? Pasting a URL from the former, copied from the address bar in browsers other than Firefox, will result in a broken or unrecognized link in the latter. Readable URLs are nice, but ultimately that choice is in the hands of the sites creating the URLs - Firefox does its best to keep them readable *in* the address bar, but the primary goal should be to allow users to easily create working links for sites they've visited - even if readability suffers because of that.
This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO. Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME. This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.
Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2010-11-15]
No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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