Use case or problem
I want to:
- Quickly Copy the URL.
- Quickly Copy the URL as a Markdown link.
I also want to know when these actions have been executed, so I’m confident in the keyboard shortcuts I press.
Why is this important
Copying URLs may be on the top most repeated actions when browsing the web.
A typical user can do it hundreds of times per week, and a power user could easily reach the thousands, depending on the type of work performed.
This has the potential of saving a lot of time and facilitate a very common action.
Having the option to Copy the URL as Markdown is very valuable to then paste in the plethora of applications that support it like Slack, Teams, Jira, GitHub, Obsidian, Notion, LLM Chat apps, etc.
Proposed solution
- Update the default keyboard shortcut for “Copy URL” to
Ctrl + Cmd + C. - Add a keyboard shortcut for “Copy URL as Markdown”. Default configured to
Ctrl + Shift + C. - Add a toast notification confirming the actions were executed.
References
a) Arc Browser
Shortcuts:
Toast in the top right:
b) Zen Browser
Shortcuts:
Toasts in the top right:
Current workaround
- Manually configuring the existing “Copy URL” shortcut.
Cons:
Ctrl + Cmd + Cdoes not work currently, there may be a bug- There is no toast notification
- No native workaround.
Related feature requests
- Copy URL and Page title - Brave Feature Requests - Brave Community
- Copying urls in the format of rich links - Brave Feature Requests - Brave Community
- Keyboard Shortcut to copy URL - Brave Feature Requests - Brave Community
- Add CMD+shift+C (Ctrl+Shift+C) as a shortcut to copy the url from anywhere in the browser · Issue #50390 · brave/brave-browser
- Search results for ‘copy url’ - Brave Community
As you can see, there are multiple similar Feature Requests for this already.
My objective with this post was to centralize them, expand on the arguments for it, and propose a solution with visual references from other products.
I’m open to any questions you have. Thanks for reading!