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Ask HN: Gmail not formatting URLs pasted from Firefox?
If I type https://test.com into the address bar of Firefox, cut/copy said URL, and paste it into Gmail there is no automatic formatting (IE I can't visit the URL, it is purely text).
If I paste the URL into a Chromium address bar, immediately cut/copy it, and paste it back into Gmail (which is still open in Firefox) - it is now formatted as a link.
Why?
- verdverm 7y agoCheck your clipboard? If it's plaintext and the same both times, a glitch? I don't see there being enough info or malice on Gmail's part
- whycombagator 7y agoSo I recently switched to FF from Chrome (at home and work). Whilst at work I often create email drafts that have links to articles I may wish to read later. I have noticed recently the links in my drafts are no longer pre-formatted. So I tried a few times copy/pasting URLs from Chromium into Gmail, and then pasting the same URLs into FF and subsequently copying/pasting into Gmail again (and vice versa). Each time links from FF are not formatted, whilst ones from Chromium are.
- gshdg 7y agoOnce you send they’ll be interpreted as clickable by the recipient’s email client anyway in 99.5% of cases.
- murkle 7y agoChrome now adds the formatting when it puts the URL on the clipboard; Firefox doesn't