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September 22, 2005
Easier URL copying with Firefox
We've just done it again - copied an URL and a piece of explanatory text to an email message to Apal. We do it all the time, and you probably do the same thing.
There's an easier way of doing this, with a Firefox extension called Copy URL+.
The Copy URL+ extension enables you to copy to the clipboard the current document's address along with additional information such as the document's title, the current selection or both. You might find this behavior useful when you want to send (IM, email) an interesting link to a friend and out of laziness convenience you don't want to copy the link and an explanation of what the link is in a single step. The explanation can be as short as the document's title or it can be a descriptive text from the document.
Posted by cw at September 22, 2005 06:48 PM
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You know, it was just a couple of nights ago I was doing an assignment and thinking "how ridiculously slow is referencing from the web?". You've got to copy the text you want, separating the ad's from the info, grab the author, headline, and date, and don't forget the url as well. This should make it a bit easier - thanks BE.
Posted by: Kerno at September 23, 2005 04:24 PM