escape characters in copied URL

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lvm
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escape characters in copied URL

Post by lvm »

URL containing special characters is displayed unescaped in the address line but when it is copied from the address line to clipboard special character are escaped with percents e.g. https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="letters and spaces" becomes https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q ... 0spaces%22. Is there a way do disable this and copy URL unescaped? The only configuration option I found - network.standard-url.escape-utf8, controls escaping of national non-ascii characters but not the ascii special characters like spaces or quotation marks.
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therube
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Re: escape characters in copied URL

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Wonder if you could do that with a bookmarlet?
Pulls the current page URL but does so without "safely" encoding (URL encoding) it?

Note that if you don't select the entire URL, it is left unchanged.

Sample: http://example/test.php?p=(28999)+999+999

If you copy the entire URL, you get, http://example/test.php?p=%28999%29+999+999.
If you leave out the 'h' when you make your copy, ttp://example/test.php?p=(28999)+999+999, you get, ttp://example/test.php?p=(28999)+999+999.
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