Microsoft’s web browser no longer only copies the URL of pages, but also integrates the titles. Here’s how to turn off this feature.
If you use Microsoft Edge and you happen to copy and paste URLs into documents, messages, or emails, you’ve most likely noticed a change. The browser no longer copies just the raw URL, but the full title of the page with a hyperlink.
Wanting to copy, for example, the URL https://www.01net.com from Edge, pasting the contents of the clipboard will display 01net.com – High Tech News, Product Tests & Downloads.
While it can prove useful in certain situations, not being able to paste the exact contents of what you have copied can become annoying very quickly. Fortunately, it is possible to deactivate this operating mode in the browser settings.
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1. Open settings
Click on the main menu of the browser represented by three small dots, and go to the Settings menu.
2. Change the sharing options
From the left column, access the Share, copy and paste menu. The Default URL copy-paste format is typically set to Link mode, the one that creates a hyperlink on the title of the page whose URL you copied.
Change this value and choose Plain Text instead. Now any URLs you copy will be pasted from the clipboard in their usual raw form, without the page title embedded in it.