It's a constant annoyance that Google Chrome Inserts http(s):// when copying URLs From Chrome

Question

It's a constant annoyance that Google Chrome Inserts http(s):// when copying URLs from Chrome. As a network systems engineer, I am constantly copying URLs to network devices from Chrome into PuTTY, another shell or a script or command line. Is there a workaround or fix?

Answer 1

Visit chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme and set the experiment "Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme" to "Disabled". This should return the address bar to a more traditional mode, where the scheme prefix is always shown, and copying will grab exactly what was selected.

While you're at it, you can disable all other "hide steady-state etc" experiments (even if they're currently inactive on your system), so that they won't get activated for testing in the future.