Add feature to right click menu on a url/link to copy just the link's text - copy link text

[krmeadows]

I frequently have to copy the TEXT of a url/link, and currently I have to highlight the link, then use copy to get the text into the clipboard. It would be very useful, and I think simple to program, an additional choice to the right click menu on a url/link, the ability to just copy the text directly into the clipboard. Currently, there is a "copy link" but no "copy link text".

[JonesBones]

Have always loved this feature in Chromium browsers. It think it is even more important on mobile than on desktop, but both should have this. This feature was available on Chrome Android since at least 2014-01-10

[Thomas_DC]

For info, there is an extension to do this now: Copy Link Text.

Of course it would be better to be integrated in the core. Maybe developers don't want to make a context menu item more, and want to make Ability to Edit Context Menus 1st.

However, if it can't be integrated in the core soon, it would be welcome to make the Copy Link Text extension a Recommended extension ASAP. It should not take a very long time since it contains very little code.

[sokai]

+1000

I wonder where the very active idea from 2022 is gone: https://web.archive.org/web/20230519233636/https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-feature-to-right...

KR

[leozhang]

any updates ?

[oset]

Copy link text

Everyone knows that right click/hold expands menu allowing to, amongst the others, copy a link URL.

Very often user wants to copy link text, rather than url, and, in case of many links put in list, it is virtually impossible to do by selecting text around and then managing selection to clever text only.

That is why it would be very useful to add option 'Copy link text', along with usual 'Copy link'.

[Jon]

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[Anonymous]

Copy Link Extras – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

[oset]

> Copy Link Extras

Thanks. The thing is, it's desktop addon, that doesn't work on mobile.

Neither can be installed, nor substituted with other programming solution.

[Kerim]

This feature should definitely come to the app.

[anonymousF]

I don't know why this is not available even today in an Android version!

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[krmeadows]

Can we get the feature?

[Thomas_DC]

It would be very nice if this new menu item could be able to copy text from text buttons, too.

Please see https://github.com/def00111/copy-link-text/issues/17.

For example, here: "Post Your Comment" is a text button.

[phre]

I can't believe this topic is finally alive again after all this time. Please devs, add this feature this time!