Edge does a “pretty paste”

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So in a recent update of Edge it now does what I call a “pretty paste”.  Rather than putting in the raw url, it “copies a URL from the address bar and
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Susan …

Maybe it could be  prettier?

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Thought was me: I refreshed the page up to three times.

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doriel

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Sorry about that, I think my big monitors mess me up.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Susan is still learning some of the tricks Woody has stacked up his sleeves.
I found the problem when I logged on, and fixed it before spotting your post. It should be “prettier” now?

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OscarCP

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Microsoft has remote control on Edge browser and can disable extensions like the recently fake extensions in Microsoft Store.

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Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox do the same, but much more:

As well as removing the malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Google also automatically deactivated instances within the user’s browser.

Heed This Google Chrome Warning: Do NOT Activate Any Of These 500 Extensions

The add-ons have been banned and removed from the Mozilla Add-on (AMO) portal to prevent new installs, but they’ve also been disabled in the browsers of the users who already installed them.

Mozilla has banned nearly 200 malicious Firefox add-ons over the last two weeks

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Any browser platform can do that it’s not just Microsoft.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Did anyone outside of Microsoft ask them to make “pretty’ copy and paste of URL’s? Aren’t there more pressing issues to work on?

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doriel

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GreatAndPowerfulTech wrote:

Did anyone outside of Microsoft ask them to make “pretty’ copy and paste of URL’s?

Yes, many users provided feedback before, during and after the change:

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 experience.

What did we find?
We found that one has to regularly edit the URL they copy to make them understandable for sharing or remove seemingly extra parameters. This led us to what we call Link format, an easily readable URL that also preserves the details of the URL.

We also learned that nearly everyone, at one point, wants the full, plain-text URL exactly as it was copied. When one first copies a URL, it’s not always obvious that the full text is needed. Other times, it’s desired to have both a readable format and the plain-text version.

Reza Ameri: Thank you for sharing, this might seems like small feature but it would have great impact on productivity.

bradmacdonald: This will be a huge productivity increase for me,

AaronMcHale: This looks like a great feature, as I’m reading I’m thinking how useful this could be

kwright62: Plain text links are a great help, many thanks for doing this!

CSearle: This solves a problem I didn’t know I had! Why hasn’t pasting links always worked like this?? Of course, there will always be the dinosaurs who don’t like anything changing 🙂

ETC.

Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!

GreatAndPowerfulTech wrote:

Aren’t there more pressing issues to work on?

Like what?

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I thought in Edge there were changes in copying and pasting tables on the website too. Not that I ever had a problem with that before.
What is this “pretty link copy paste” for? Sending links in IM? Pasting links into askwoody comments too! I wont need LINK button, I think.
Thank you for sharing your information, Susan.

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In emails is where I first spotted it.  But generally speaking in any location where you might paste a url

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Does this work for both the old Edge and the new Chromium-based Edge?

On my computer the Edge Settings menu looks very different than in Susan Bradley’s example and under Settings>About this app Edge displays the following:

Microsoft Edge 44.18362.449.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.18363

Windows 10 Pro version 1909 build 18363.1198

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No, new Chromium-based Edge only. Version 87 or later.

(Legacy Edge hasn’t had any recent updates.)

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