Chrome no longer gives Copy option when pressing a URL.
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Gmail, NewsFeed, Chats, Messages
Completely useless options for me.
Pressing the other button, that looks like two sheets of paper copies with Amp Links. I get criticizied for posting a Amp link
Chrome took away the ability to edit a URL a couple years ago.
If the URL ended with /page1 I used to routinely change it to /page2 or /page7. Whatever I wanted.
You can’t press a URL and change it anymore.
Is there any work around to copy a URL?
Do any other phone browsers support URL copying without Amp?
ETA: the OP’s post just above appeared while I was typing. But I still don’t know what is this “pencil button” he’s talking about.
I do not understand what the issue is.
I have Chrome on my android phone. When I press and hold on a link that’s in a page a pop-up appears with the choices “open in new tab”, “open in incognito tab”, “copy link address”, “Copy link text”, “download link”, and “share link”
Each of which do exactly what you’d expect.
If the OP is referring to the link in the URL input box at the top of the page, i.e. the URL of the page you’re looking at, not one on the page you’re looking at, that’s slightly different.
To edit that link, tap it. The pop-up changes and the URL input box becomes blank. Which is misleading. Whatever was most recently in that box is now shown as the top entry in the displayed list of history. Tap the pencil icon at far right and that link loads into the URL box and it is editable.
Or tap any of the other history links which are then loaded into the URL input box in editable form.
Okay, I see what pencil you mean. You’re talking about the one next to the Copy and Share buttons when you click on the address. The pencil works for me, I just tried it and it let me edit the address. I don’t use that, though. I just copy the address, and then paste it wherever I want–usually in an address bar, and then I just edit it after I paste it, before hitting [Enter], or whatever we’re calling the [—>] button at the bottom right of the keyboard.
I’m using Chrome now and when I right click on an URL in a post or content of a web page, I get a pop-up menu with the option to “Copy link address”; when I click in the URL bar once, the entire URL is selected and then the right-click gives me a pop-up menu with the option to copy.
I like Firefox. I use it on my PC and it can synchronize if you log into it, so my bookmarks are kept the same between my PC and my Android device. I have trouble with Chrome on my mobile device, it doesn’t feel intuitive to me.
On my Android phone, using Chrome, I can copy the URL through the Share functionality. I open the menu in the upper right corner (vertical ellipsis), select “Share…”, then I get a list of ways to share the content to various applications and channels (SMS, GMail, Print, Pocket, etc.). One of them is called “Copy” and copies the URL to the clipboard.
It works for me, but I don’t find it particularly intuitive. I guess they’ve decided that people don’t care about the URL itself, they just want to “share” content in the most convenient form.
Too late to edit :
I admit that when I want to share a page with my hubby, I just go Share - SMS and the URL appears in a new SMS message. Same if I want to send the address through GMail. So maybe the explicit Copy - Paste process is less necessary than it used to be.
Maybe my copy of chrome (on android) is out of date, but i click the three dots in the top right corner, and one of the options is “share”. If i click the little “square on square” next to that, it copies the URL into my clip board. That seems pretty straightforward to me.
Was there some other way that doesn’t work any more?
I should have mentioned phone in the question title. I forgot to make the distinction.