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Copy Fixer for Firefox and Chrome lets you easily copy the URL and page title
Here's an operation I need to do quite often: copy both the page title and its URL. For some reason, neither Firefox nor Chrome provides a way to do this in one fell swoop. I need to activate the address bar in order to copy the URL, and I'm not even sure there's a way to copy the page title (I usually just type it out manually).
Copy Fixer is an add-on for Firefox and Chrome that provides a simple and elegant solution. With Copy Fixer, if you hit Ctrl+C when nothing is selected, your clipboard is populated with something like this:
Download Squad
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/
That's it. It's just the page title and the URL and nothing more. I tried out the Chrome version, and it worked perfectly. It did require a restart to begin working, though, but maybe that's due to the Canary build I'm using.
The add-on is very minimalistic. There's no UI to speak of, and there are no preferences. One option that I wish the developer would add is a way to wrap the title and the URL with arbitrary strings and lose the line break. This way, the add-on could be used to produce Markdown-friendly links – page title surrounded by brackets, followed by the URL surrounded by parentheses. Maybe that will come in the future!
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Subscribe to commentsGeirNov 17th 2010 4:04AM
That is really useful, I need this.
@mediazed: copying seems to work fine for you, you just need a plug-in to avoid duplicate paste operations..... ;-)
vectorNov 17th 2010 5:32AM
Useful addition...
DrCTONov 17th 2010 12:22PM
Erez: I realize CopyFixer covers BOTH Firefox and Chrome, but there is a solution for Firefox that addresses your shortcomings with CopyFixer. The extension is named CoLT (http://is.gd/hippU). Check it out, I think as a blogger you will really appreciate the versatility of this extension. I use CoLT daily in combination with BBCode (http://is.gd/hipJx) and Copy ShortURL (http://is.gd/hipN6) to quickly compose blog and forum posts.
murphNov 19th 2010 12:27PM
I use Quote URL Text to do something similar in Firefox all the time. It will copy the highlighted text, plus the URL, plus the title. It's very customizable, you can probably get it to do this as well.