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How do I copy an unencoded URL from my browser?

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Whenever I copy and paste URLs from my browser, they end up being percent-encoded and completely unreadable.

For example, the homepage URL of the Japanese version of Wikipedia, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メインページ, becomes this monstrosity:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8

This happens even though the clean version of the URL displays in the browser's address bar.

Is there a quick and easy way to stop this from happening? I'm mostly interested in Edge and Firefox but solutions for other browsers would be appreciated.

urls web-browsers character-encoding
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Worked for Canina‭

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  1. Enter about:config in the address bar.
  2. Type "decodeurl" in the search field.
  3. Set browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy to true.

From the documentation:

browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy (boolean, default: false)

Whether copying the entire URL from the location bar will put a human readable (percent-decoded) URL on the clipboard.

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Affects only copying from the location bar (1 comment)
Affects only copying from the location bar
Canina‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago
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The preference name and the quote from the documentation already spell this out, but I think it's worth actually highlighting that this only affects copying from the location bar. It does not, for example, seem to have any effect on the right-click context menu "Copy Link" function's behavior; those links remain percent-encoded, at least on Firefox ESR 91.5.