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Mon, Dec 8
Mon, Dec 1
The behavior in source mode should be okay now as well.
Change #1212189 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Paste URLs from Microsoft Edge address bar as plain text in source mode
Change #1213434 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (eca5d859a)
Change #1213434 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (eca5d859a)
Change #1212188 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] tests: ClipboardHandler: Allow testing formats other than text/html and text/plain
Thu, Nov 27
Change #1212189 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Paste URLs from Microsoft Edge address bar as plain text in source mode
Change #1212188 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] tests: ClipboardHandler: Allow testing formats other than text/html and text/plain
The MIME type text/link-preview seems to be supported only by MS Edge, and is lost when copying from Edge to Chrome or Firefox (though that json is viewable with the InsideClipboard util, registered as "Link Preview Format").
Edge-to-Firefox copying exposes two items in clipboard inspector, one is text/plain for URL, another is text/html, whose content is:
<html> <body> <!--StartFragment--><a href="xxx">yyy</a> <!--EndFragment--> </body> </html>
Tue, Nov 25
The behaviour inside Edge should be working as intended (gerrit #1143196 parses the url and title)
But (1) this is still different from how we handle copying URL from address bars in other browser. (2) This transforms Wikimedia internal URLs to internal links (see example 3) which is not explicitly ask for (remember we are editing source code and I expect none of transforms should be performed in copy-paste).
Mon, Nov 24
The behaviour inside Edge should be working as intended (gerrit #1143196 parses the url and title). Inter-browser pasting to Firefox probably needs some investigation on the format.
Fri, Nov 21
Reopen. It seems broken again.
- Copy an external URL from Edge 142 address bar to DiscussionTools in Edge 142 will pastes [https://example.com/ Example Domain]
- Copy an external URL from Edge 142 address bar to DiscussionTools in Firefox 145 will pastes Example Domain
- Copy an Wikimedia URL from Edge 142 address bar to DiscussionTools in Edge 142 will pastes [[metawiki:Main_Page|Main Page - Meta-Wiki]]
- Copy an Wikimedia URL from Edge 142 address bar to DiscussionTools in Firefox 145 will pastes Main Page - Meta-Wiki
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Aug 12 2025
Change #1176738 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Generate accesskey labels for chromium-windows as just alt
Aug 11 2025
Alt-Shift-X is apparently the keyboard shortcut to go to the next tab group. It doesn't do anything if you don't have any tab groups. Good luck finding any documentation about that, I only found it in the source code: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/3722c4e4b4f82548d80953787525cafcf376d8cf/chrome/browser/ui/views/accelerator_table.cc#L256 and verified that it works on my Edge browser (Chromium 139).
I tried it on everything in the main menu and it didn't work -- z, x, r. Testing it with others elsewhere now, that might have been an unlucky sampling.
Does this affect all keyboard shortcuts, or just this one? I can reproduce the problem with Alt-Shift-X (on Chromium 139), but both Alt-Shift-H and Alt-H work to navigate to page history. Maybe they just added some hidden feature that took over Alt-Shift-X, or something like that?
Aug 9 2025
From this thread on the village pump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Random_article_-_keyboard_shortcut
Change #1176738 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):
[mediawiki/core@master] Generate accesskey labels for chromium-windows as just alt
Jul 9 2025
"Cannot decode Ogg file: Invalid page at offset 23094" So yeah the file is broken. While some devices might play them, others might not.
Jul 8 2025
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Jun 10 2025
Change #1154911 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (91ba9e148)
Change #1154911 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (91ba9e148)
Change #1143196 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Support pasting URLs from Microsoft Edge address bar
May 21 2025
That version of Edge is no longer supported: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers
May 7 2025
Change #1143196 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Support pasting URLs from Microsoft Edge address bar
May 5 2025
This was reported on-wiki twice recently: