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I repeatedly posted about this being terrible on reddit, I was repeatedly told to stop bitching.

It's a pain, surely this is something that you don't do, the user highlights "foo.com" and is instead given "http://foo.com. It's as bad as the sites that use Javascript to inject "read more @ http://bar.com...

It wouldn't be so bad if it was optional, but don't expect that of Chrome, oh no.

It also leads to an inconsistent experience, I'll quote myself: "If the URL you're using is http://website.com and you copy website.com, you get http://website.com, but if the URL you're using is https://website.com and you copy website.com, you get website.com. It not only messes with copying by changing what you copied into what it thinks you want, it's inconsistent with that guessing."

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selecting text in the addressbar should cause it to switch modes to reveal the full URL for the user to select.

It doesn't.

I was saying "should" as in "it'd be nice if it did".

But in retrospect I see why that was confusing.

Let's hope my issue helps. I wrote it as to-the-point as I could, with no bitching and hopefully well reasoned arguments.

They're obviously tired of people claiming suckage without explaining why they think it sucks, and probably tired of even hearing about the issue in general. They've merged LOTS of dupes into http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467

What I have to do is to leave copying the first letter if I only want to copy the domain name. For example, example.com, I'll just highlight xample.com. It sucks, but it's a sliver quicker than having to delete http://

I'm glad that at least 24 people agree with you; I thought I was the only person who had an issue with the way Chrome treats URLs in the Omni bar. I wish there was an option that lets you choose.

I may write a Google Chrome extension for this (but how many people would really want an extension just for this problem?)

So what happens if you select only part of the URL? What if you just want to select foo.com?

It's as bad as the sites that use Javascript to inject read more @ bar.com...

No it isn't don't be ridiculous

uh, yes it is. It causes the same level of annoyance and has the same solution.

Load up Chrome and go to http://hackerne.ws, copy "hackerne.ws" from the address bar (all that displays) and you clipboard contains "http://hackerne.ws, to only get "hackerne.ws" in your clipboard you must paste somewhere else and remove the http://

Load up dailymail.co.uk and select an article, highlight a portion and copy it. Now your clipboard contains your selection + "Read more at...", now you must paste it somewhere else and remove "Read more at..." if you want your selection.

Both cases can be argued it's "for the user": The Chrome example, "oh well obviously the user wants to have http:// there!" and in the dailymail example "Well obviously if they're sharing that part of the article a link to the full article would be good!". Both examples cause the same problem and have the solution, therefore they are comparable.

I think he was being ironic (look at how it was quoted: @bar.com and not @http://bar.com)

> Load up dailymail.co.uk

There was your first mistake

sfgate.com does it also. No political affiliation is safe!

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