840637 - Shift+Del to cut links from location bar doesn't prepend http:// to the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 722813

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[ranunculoid]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130208042018

Steps to reproduce:

visited an http web page (not https)
clicked on URL bar
pressed Shift+Del
opened Notepad
pressed Shift+Ins


Actual results:

The contents of the URL bar (which did not include “http”) was pasted into Notepad /verbatim/.


Expected results:

“http” should have been added somehow, or shown in the URL bar to begin with.

Comment 1

[ranunculoid]

My user agent is different because of the Blender add-on. I am running 20.0a2.

Comment 2

[Timvde]

This apparently has to do with the way you're copying. When using right click > copy or ctrl-c, the http:// is added. You can also disable the feature of hiding http:// by going to about:config and setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.

Apart from those workarounds, this of course looks like a valid bug (I can reproduce). If you set the component to "Location bar" in the bug details, a developer will probably notice it easier :)

Comment 3

[Mardeg]

bug 666964 fixed this for Ctrl C copying, changing the summary to reflect the key combo mentioned in comment 0.

The current workaround is to go to about:config and change the value of
browser.urlbar.trimURLs
to false

Comment 4

[ranunculoid]

Thanks Mardeg.