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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Suggestion: Copy link text

Reported by ji...@evolvingweb.ca, Mar 28 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/56.0.2924.76 Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Right click on an anchor element
2. You will see an option to "Copy link address"

What is the expected behavior?
There should be another option like "Copy link text". Or maybe you can cascade the menu? Set it as "Copy link... > Address | Text"

What went wrong?
The feature doesn't exist.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.76  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 25.0 r0

Sorry if I'm writing this in the wrong place, but I wasn't sure how to submit a suggestion. Can you please tell me how to suggest something? I'm sure my suggestion will be a good addition to Chrome.

Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com, Mar 28 2017 

Yes, it's a very useful feature and I use it quite often in the chromium fork I switched to (centbrowser).

I'm afraid chrome/chromium UX team decided to remove it due to low usage statistics just like they removed "delete" menu item for text input fields.

You may use an extension that adds the feature, for example:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-link/mjpbijfgaajfmabmfnabchojdlpfnbbi

Comment 2 by jigar...@gmail.com, Mar 28 2017 

Thanks for the detailed reply! Sad to hear that the feature was removed. To me it sounds like something essential. Anyway, I do not wish to install an extension to tackle the problem though. I think I'll stick to drag select text and then copy it manually.

Comment 3 by thomasanderson@chromium.org, Mar 28 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Sorry we decided to remove this, but I don't think we're likely to add it back.  I would have liked this feature myself!
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