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gwern on Oct 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser

It gets in my way doing copy-paste. I don't entirely understand it - it seems to have something to do with whether Firefox is busy or not - but it's easy for a copied URL to simply not have the prefix, which breaks subsequent use pretty frequently (eg. 'google.com' is not a useful Markdown link while 'http://google.com is).

Permit on Oct 13, 2011 [–]

As mentioned, when you copy from the URL bar, you get the http:// prefix so this is a non-issue.

gwern on Oct 14, 2011 | [–]

Did you not read what I wrote? That does not always happen.

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