How to cut, copy, paste the full URin Chrome for Android

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Published 20 Nov 2015

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Some time ago Chrome opted to hide the full URwhen you’re on a domain’s subpage. It certainly looks prettier, but sometimes you want to see the full details or copy paste the address elsewhere. 

Here’s what you need to do: touch once in the Omnibox at the top of Chrome (where you type UR or search terms). This will display highlight the entire UR Then, touch hold to bring up options to cut, copy, or share. 

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th a couple of taps you can copy a URor share it with others.

Touching Share will bring up Android’s Share Intent. You can then send that link to any of the other apps on your device.

chrome url translate

A translate capability is hiding behind the overflow button in Chrome.

’re not sure if this is by design, or if the translate feature is in some type of holding pattern. has a fairly rapid development pace with Chrome, so pay attention to updates to see what else pops up here.