I’m dealing with a lot of URLs with non-ASCII characters that are automatically escaped when copied like this: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3 when I want to copy it like this: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/لينكس.
I know there’s a trick to do that by manually adding a space to the beginning of the URL, then copying it. But is there an about:config flag to automatically copy unescaped URLs?
I don’t know of any such config.
The problem is that the %D9 format is the actual URL. The format you want is just a display format and not the actual URL. When you add a space the string goes from being an URL to a search text and the browser does you a favor and converts the form.
Another approach is use a tool for the conversion, but that’s more work. One tool: https://www.punycoder.com/
I just tried Chrome and I couldn’t get the space trick to work – it appears you always need a separate converter.
about:config,
browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy = true