##Google Search, Facebook Chat and Hangouts(in Gmail)- Link Copy - (For Firefox)
Get this on Mozilla's Addon space
To install manually, just press Ctrl+O (Cmd+O for Mac) and open the .xpi
file.
To build the .xpi from source, download the addon sdk for firefox and
run <path to cfx> xpi
This is just a firefox version of chrome-link-copy
I was fed up of the redirection urls google gives on its search results - making it a chore to copy the link address. As I am now using firefox as the default broswer, I decided to write the firefox version of this add on
A tiny extension for Firefox to make copying links from google pain free.
Generally when you right click a link on google search and select
Copy Link Address, the url copied is google's redirecting url and not the original url.
It looks like this https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLed_Zeppelin&ei=DFHnU8_mK4Hi8AXqpIDAAg&usg=AFQjCNHIjSJNblTZM7fbhcTkrPNp14SnKw&sig2=L95WqCRVToubyMsGNnBFWg&bvm=bv.72676100,d.dGc
So I introduced an extra option in the contextmenu for google search links, Copy real link, using this you can copy the original link without any alteration.
Using this extension, the copied link is this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin
Works for Google Search, Google Images, Facebook Chat, Hangouts in Gmail
I will put in a more appealing README later when I find the time/energy.
