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MissyQ
Former Employee
Aug 19, 2020

Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!

Recently, we wanted to dig into how users feel about copying and pasting a URL from their browser. We looked to understand what they do when they copy and paste URLs, as well as the pain points they ...
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rshupak
Iron Contributor
Oct 09, 2020

JaredB81 An issue with favorites and the new functionality.  This is with canary build 666.

 

When I right click on a favorite in the favorites bar and select Copy, it honors the link setting and will generate the following clipboard formats

 

C0C6 HTML Format
C0D2 UniformResourceLocatorW
000D Unicode Text
C31E chromium/x-bookmark-entries
0010 Locale
0001 Text
0007 OEM Text

 

When I right click on a favorite in edge://favorites or the new pinned favorites sidebar and click Copy link (note the different name and icon), it doesn't honor the setting and only generates the following formats.

 

000D Unicode Text
0010 Locale
0001 Text
0007 OEM Text
 
In canary 666, right clicking on the favorites menu, from the address bar icon, and selecting Copy link only generates the limited formats.  In dev build 658, which doesn't have the new favorites menu and pinned sidebar, right clicking offers Copy not Copy link and it generates the richer set of formats honoring the link format setting.

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JaredB81
Former Employee
Oct 15, 2020

rshupak thank you as always!  I was on vacation last week and am still catching up.

When I right-click on the address bar in Canary today (671), I see "Copy" not "Copy link" and the appropriate formats get added to the clipboard when copying. 

 

Can you confirm that you observe the expected behavior in Canary build 671 (or later if you see this post in the next few days)?

 

Thank you!

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