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Comment by AdrianRossouw | Hacker News Reader

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chrome is already breaking half of the copy/pastes i do because it's from my history and not a page that's already loaded.

do you have any idea how many people actually use copy/paste? i would venture that ctrl-c/ctrl-v is probably the only key binding that the majority of computer users of all walks of life use.

half of the places i seem to be pasting links into don't pick up the links without the http. Including things like markdown in github issues, many chat systems.

Messing with the url bar when you did it last time has been a constant daily sense of irritation to me. So no. I don't want you to mess with it any further.

just please stop.

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Something similar happened with various other of Google's properties a while back — Google's use of intermediate redirector URLs that broke cut-and-paste.

I'd prefer to reference the destination URLs and wsites in the documentation and related materials I was creating, and the only way to do that with various Google web properties was to visit the destination site and cut and paste from the browser from there — otherwise I'd end up with a Google "link shortener" obfuscating the domain, and possibly also eventually interrupting the connection if (when?) Google decided to discontinue or update the redirector service.

Further, this Google practice filled the browser history with intermediate URLs, which rendered the browser history far less useful.

I would not expect Google to stop these behaviors, though. Switch search engines. Vote with your clicks and with the data you (don't) expose to Google.

Why should it make copying, pasting, or editing URLs more difficult? Right now in stable Chrome, you click once on the URL bar and it selects the entire URL. Then you can Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-V to paste, or click again to put the cursor in a specific place to edit it. That shouldn't be any different with this new Chrome feature they're testing.

Indeed, or make it even simpler: F6>CTRL+C

The F6 functionality is the reason I welcome this, Chromium devs aren't really taking control from us more tech savvy users, they're making it easier for regular users to spot the relevant part of a URL.

I already use F6 for all interaction with the omnibar as it is. Also, I'm not sure which browser it was (Opera or Firefox), but I distinctly recall either of those a few years ago having the exact same functionality discussed here, where only the domain was shown unless the URL field was active.

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