Include title when copying from location bar to clipboard and add format text/html

[not-a-user]

When bookmarking the page and copying the bookmark from the Library, we get a "nice" html link as text/html in the clipboard. When copying from the location bar, we only get the "ugly" url as text/plain. See example below.

-> Pasting into Teams etc. yields a "nice" link if copied from bookmarks (rare) but a "ugly" one if copied from location bar (standard case).

Linux, Firefox 102.0.

Functionally, the same is true in Windows. Note that Edge copies "nice" links from the location bar.

Example:

[user@host ~]$ # bookmark page and copy from Library

[user@host ~]$ xclip -selection clipboard -o -t TARGETS
TIMESTAMP
TARGETS
MULTIPLE
SAVE_TARGETS
text/x-moz-place
text/x-moz-url
text/html
UTF8_STRING
COMPOUND_TEXT
TEXT
STRING
text/plain;charset=utf-8
text/plain
text/x-moz-place-action
[user@host ~]$ xclip -selection clipboard -o -t text/html
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><A HREF="https://connect.mozilla.org/">Home - Mozilla Connect</A>

[user@host ~]$ # copy from location bar

[user@host ~]$ xclip -selection clipboard -o -t TARGETS
TIMESTAMP
TARGETS
MULTIPLE
SAVE_TARGETS
UTF8_STRING
COMPOUND_TEXT
TEXT
STRING
text/plain;charset=utf-8
text/plain
[user@host ~]$ xclip -selection clipboard -o -t text/plain
https://connect.mozilla.org/

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-taburl-html/

[not-a-user]

@AnonymousThank you indeed! Your extension is a perfect workaround. And its a single click (instead of click + CTRL-C).

So we are back at the point: Is the Feature basic functionality or scope of an extension? I don't know.

[Anonymous]

@not-a-user 

FYI: The addon has a shotcut (default: CTRL+SHIFT+C) that you can re-assign to anything firefox allows. (ref. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortcuts-firefox )

I might have forgotten to add that info to the addon description page.  My Bad.

[jscher2000]

I'm late to this party, but I have an add-on, too. 😉

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-frame-or-page-url/

If you prefer HTML, you can make that the default for a single-click on the button in the add-on options. Otherwise, you need to Ctrl+click the button.