Issue 976 – chromium – Copying omnibox contents should not preserve text formatting – Project Hosting on Google Code

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Open any website. 2. Alt-D to select the URL 3. Ctrl-C to copy 4. Paste to any editor that allows rich format: MS Word, OpenOffice Writer, MS Outlook, etc. What is the expected result? The URL should be pasted as plain text. What happens instead? The pasted URL retains the colours (green or red for https, black and grey) and the font (Segoe UI 11.5pt) of the Google Chrome URL box.

Issue 976 (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=976) explains exactly what I see when copying a URL out of Chrome on Windows…. and how it behaves different than other browsers (when copied into Outlook in particular).