How to open link not available in the address bar?

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Dirki
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How to open link not available in the address bar?

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How could one copy to the clib board the link shown here in the tab and when hovering the mouse pointer over the tab:

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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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Maybe there's an extension for that. If not, I probably could add it to this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... -page-url/
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I will try it, thank you very much!
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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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This copies the tab title as well as the url: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... e-and-url/

If I just want the url, I select it in the location bar and tap ctrl + c.
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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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Thank you very much for the link, I will try it.

Location bar is the same as the address bar?

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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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Yes, I mean the address bar.
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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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So then CTRL+L and after CTRL+C.

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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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You can also use a bookmarklet to get the URL or the Title or if you want both then you can modify the code.

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javascript:(function(){if(prompt(document.title,document.location.href)){prompt(document.title,document.title)}})()
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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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Sorry, what do I have to do with that code?
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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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A bookmarklet is a special type of bookmark that has JavaScript instead of an URL in its location field.
You can create a new bookmark and paste the JavaScript code in its Location field.
You can create this bookmark on the Bookmarks Toolbar for easy access and click this bookmark the get a JavaScript prompt window that shows the URL, if you click OK then you get the title in the text field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
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Re: How to open link not available in the address bar?

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Ah alright, got it working, very good, many thanks!
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