How to disable URL encoding of address bar when copying to clipboard?

Question

Google Chrome

If the link contains non-ascii characters, then when copied to the clipboard (Chrome, FF), it turns into a kilobyte of unreadable characters. In addition, copying to the buffer not what was selected by the cursor is already bad.
An example where this is important is any article from the Russian Wikipedia. You want to give a link, but it turns out porridge.

Answer 1

The author's extension UsableHomeButton starting from version 1.4 allows you to easily copy the decoded page address:
the context menu of the Home button → the "Copy" submenu → "Page address (decoded)".
In general, both in Firefox and Chrome, the following sequence of actions helps:

1. go to the beginning of the address bar;
   
2. press the spacebar;
   
3. select (Shift + End) and copy the rest of the line, which, in fact, contains the URL we need (though without a protocol).
   

Answer 2

I'm not exactly sure, but Google advises to try this in FF

about:config
network.standard-url.encode-utf8 = true
network.standard-url.escape-utf8 = false

Answer 3

For FF 53 and older, find the
browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy parameter in about:config
and set it to true.
For chrome plugin Copy Url

Answer 4

I myself ran into this problem yesterday, while I manage to copy a piece of ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/“Hackers:_Heroes_of_computer_revolution” separately, paste it into a notepad and copy-paste the human text already from the notepad - terribly inconvenient%(

Answer 5

Specially so handed over so that the links do not beat. If you turn off encoding, and there is a space in the line, then the link will most likely become incorrect.

Answer 6

I showed an example with inserting a link. Not everywhere you can use tags to display links. For example, you can send a link via icq, skype. Clients automatically recognize the link and make it so that the user can go with one click. Moreover, the implementation of the parser may be different. For example, a developer can optionally remove Russian characters from the recognition mask. Until now, some parsers (for example, skype) do not understand national domains. As for "do not encode Russian characters", in general, encode is carried out according to the standard (if I'm not mistaken www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt ).

Answer 7

Plugin for copying links with Cyrillic

Answer 8

In the fox, substitution of a slash to the end of the address helps.

Answer 9

In Firefox, I lazily click in the address bar and insert a space after the address. Then I copy it all and don't think about anything. The space won't prevent anything.
Just checked the previous setup tip (about:config → browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy) and it worked great too.