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> <channel><title>gHacks Technology News &#124; Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials &#187; copy url</title> <atom:link href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/copy-url/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.ghacks.net</link> <description>A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com"/><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://superfeedr.com/hubbub"/> <item><title>CoLT, Copy Link Text And URL In Firefox, Beats Copy Fixer By A Mile</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/17/colt-copy-link-text-and-url-in-firefox-beats-copy-fixer-by-a-mile/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/17/colt-copy-link-text-and-url-in-firefox-beats-copy-fixer-by-a-mile/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:28:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Browsing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category> <category><![CDATA[colt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy link]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy link title]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy page title]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy url]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy url and title]]></category> <category><![CDATA[firefox add-ons]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=36984</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just read the review of Copy Fixer by Erez over at the Download Squad and thought that it would be nice to share my opinion on the topic. Copy Fixer is an extension for Firefox and Chrome that copies the page title and url from the active page on Ctrl-C if nothing is selected, [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read the review of Copy Fixer by <a
href="http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/11/16/copy-fixer-for-firefox-and-chrome-lets-you-easily-copy-the-url-a/">Erez</a> over at the Download Squad and thought that it would be nice to share my opinion on the topic. Copy Fixer is an extension for Firefox and Chrome that copies the page title and url from the active page on Ctrl-C if nothing is selected, and pastes the contents separately in a text form or editor on Ctrl-V. The problem with this is that it pastes the information separately, so that you end up with two pasted lines, first the page title and then the url, and that it can only do so for the page title and url, and not for other links on a page.</p><p>If you want to include a link to the page you still need to apply the HTML tags to do that in most cases. That is not comfortable.</p><p>Let us take a look at how CoLT handles the same operation. With CoLT installed, all you need to do is right-click on the page, and selected Copy Page Title And Location As > HTML Link. This creates an automatic HTML link in the form  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ghacks.net/&quot;&gt;Ghacks Technology News&lt;/a&gt; so that it can be directly posted on websites or blog postings.</p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/coLT.jpg" alt="coLT" title="coLT" width="308" height="259" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-36985" /></p><p>But CoLT offers more than that. It can also copy the page title and url in plain text, rich text HTML, BB code, Fusetalk or Wikipedia compatible format, to accommodate for situations where the url and link text are needed in different formats.</p><p>Still not convinced? How about the option to perform the same operation on any other link on the page? That&#8217;s right, you can right-click on any link and make the very same selection to copy the link title and url in the supported formats.</p><p>If that was not powerful enough, there are options to add your own copy syntax right to the menu. Fire up the options and create your own link copying syntax.</p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/copy-paste-custom-links.jpg" alt="copy paste custom links" title="copy paste custom links" width="497" height="492" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-36986" /></p><p>Just click the Add button in the options and use one of the several available variables to create your custom link structure. In addition to the standard options like copying url and title information, it is for instance possible to add link title attributes, local time or selected text to the clipboard.</p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/custom-link.jpg" alt="custom link" title="custom link" width="377" height="400" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-36987" /></p><p>CoLT is in every way superior to Copy Fixer. Well every but one, since the add-on is only available for the Firefox browser and not Google Chrome.</p><p>Firefox users on the other hand are better of with CoLT as it offers superior options that can improve the productivity of bloggers, webmasters, journalists, researchers and other users who copy links regularly.</p><p>The add-on is compatible with the latest Firefox 4 builds if compatibility is forced. Download <a
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1812/">CoLT</a> from the Mozilla Add-on repository.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/17/colt-copy-link-text-and-url-in-firefox-beats-copy-fixer-by-a-mile/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Copy URL To Clipboard When Copying Text In Firefox</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/21/copy-url-to-clipboard-when-copying-text-in-firefox/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/21/copy-url-to-clipboard-when-copying-text-in-firefox/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:20:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Browsing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category> <category><![CDATA[copy url]]></category> <category><![CDATA[firefox add-ons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[firefox tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mozilla-firefox]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quote url]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quote url text]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8428</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quoting text on a website usually requires to include the url of the website the quote was found. Some webmasters prefer not to do this but visitors like the possibility to check the source for additional information to research the topic further. And sometimes it comes in handy to check if the article on one [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quoting text on a website usually requires to include the url of the website the quote was found. Some webmasters prefer not to do this but visitors like the possibility to check the source for additional information to research the topic further. And sometimes it comes in handy to check if the article on one site is actually putting the quote into the right context.</p><p>The small Firefox add-on <a
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quoteurltext/">Quote URL Text</a> adds a new entry to the context menu of the web browser. The Quote Text entry can be used to copy the selected text and the url of the page to the Clipboard. This saves the step of having to copy the url separately when quoting text on a web page.</p><p>The Firefox add-on comes with a few options to include additional information like the title of the page and the date the page was visited. There is even a separate tab for advanced formatting options which allows for additional format changes.</p><p><span
id="more-8428"></span><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/quote_url_text.jpg" alt="quote url text" title="quote url text" width="419" height="254" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8429" /></p><p>The add-on seems to have a bug when pressing the context menu entry without having selected text before. The error does not have any bad effects though other than having to click on the OK button to get rid of it.</p><p>It would be nice if the developer of the add-on would include a few more options. Some interesting ones would be the use of a url shortening service and the ability to add html code to the formatting. One could for instance create a valid html link pointing to the url of the page with the link as the anchor.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/21/copy-url-to-clipboard-when-copying-text-in-firefox/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
