Copy Page URL

Given most people’s over-reliance on internet access for the vast majority of their work and personal-related activities, browsers have evolved from simply housing their initial webpage rendering capabilities to the Swiss-army-knife-style approach of packing as many features as possible for users’ comfort and convenience, thanks in part to extensions such as Copy Page URL.

With ever-changing internet standards, malware-filled attacks from ill-willed individuals and privacy-breaking website permissions, most browser developers are faced with the need to prioritize incremental under-the-hood upgrades to the detriment of functionality enhancements in the short term.

However, thanks to the virtually limitless potential behind their built-in support for third-party add-ons, web navigators can be customized according to one’s preferences in a modular fashion, all without having to ship bloated products and giving the choice to end-users through publisher-curated digital stores and databases or via side-loading items the likes of the extension at hand.

While a browser’s development mode is intended for testing one’s very own extensions, enabling it lets you get access to unreleased yet safe add-ons and enjoy their benefits before an official release is made, and Copy Page URL’s open-source license allows users to inspect the code and view the lack of malicious intent that attests to the safety of the add-on.

Once enabled, the utility injects an extra entry in the context menu of the Chromium browser of your choice, through which one can skip the act of bringing their cursor over to the address bar when copying the link of the current website to their clipboard, thus enhancing their mouse-based workflows.

If you happen to find yourself frequently reaching the address bar to add the URL of the active webpage to your clipboard while extracting text for quoting in a research paper or archiving useful troubleshooting tips in case their domains are taken down in the future, Copy Page URL may be the right tool for the job, considering its ease of use and lightweight form factor.