Cannot paste Web Page Location into LINK PROPERTIES box . Why not?
In earlier versions of Thunderbird, you could highlight text in an email, then go to the Link Properties box and paste in the URL information. Now, I have to either manually enter the URL data or, use a simple link with both the link and the hyperlink data being the same. I'm not into typing about a hundred characters of link data when it could be done with a paste function. Am I doing something wrong, or is this the new standard?
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It is a bug that's been around for several months, at least, and the current remedy is to use Ctrl-V (Windows) to paste a copied link into the Link Location box. For macs, I think the key is Cmd-V.
Thank you. Ugly 'work around' but it does the job. Hopefully, they will undo whatever it was that they did to disable pasting.
I've never noticed this myself (I don't actually email links very often) but when I work though it myself, I do exactly what sfhowes suggests; having previously copied an URL, I paste it into the Insert|Link dialog. How else would you do it? How is this ugly, and what's the non-ugly method?
Ah. You right-click to paste? Yes, that seems to be broken. I hadn't noticed; I usually use ctrl+c, ctrl+x and ctrl+v. Taking my hands off the keyboard to find and manipulate the mouse feels clumsy and inefficient. ;-)
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What is ugly is the fact that you have to do a 'work around'. In earlier versions you could copy your URL link, highlight a word or phase in your email text, go to Link Properties and the top line would show your highlighted text. Then, you simply went to the next box down and pasted your URL into that box. You can no longer do that. If you try, you get an error indicating that "(No named anchors or headings in this page)". Yes, doing the Control V works, but it is a 'work around' to a problem that didn't previously exist.
So how do you paste? Ctrl+v probably pre-dates the mouse! It's not a workaround, it's a long established standard keyboard shortcut.
Agree, Control V dates back to Word Perfect DOS version, pre-windows. But, this is 2015 and the right click on the mouse is so much easier. I thankfully have forgotten most of the Word Perfect commands. May they forever rest in history.
As far as I can see in comments, they are working on a solution. you could vote for the bug:
Voting option is located at the top - click on the Vote link. Importance: -- normal with 26 votes (vote) you will need to be registerd to vote. You could also Cc yourself, so you can follow progress.
Please note they are aware of the issue , so adding comments is not necessary.