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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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JaredB81
Former Employee
Aug 19, 2020

Thanks, MissyQ!

Just a head's up to everyone that we're just beginning the rollout so you may not see it in your Canary channel just yet. It will take a few days to roll out completely as we want to make sure everything is working properly as it rolls out.

Once you see the new Link format when you paste, please let us know how it works (or doesn't) for you!  We are listening 🙂

On behalf of the team working to simplify pasting of links, Thank You!

Jared

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rshupak
Iron Contributor
Aug 20, 2020

JaredB81 Will there be an option to copy non-ASCII URLs as displayed in the address bar instead of URL encoded?  For example, https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC vs. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/مايكروسوفت_إيدج.  The former is unreadable while the latter is not, assuming you know the language.