Author: aseerel4c26
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.35am, Tuesday, 22nd October 2013]

Oh, yes, hint for the windows users: you likely do not know the very handy textselect/middleclick copy/paste feature. ;-)

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.35am, Tuesday, 22nd October 2013]

I believe this was a deliberate design decision.

Basically it's a question of a tradeoff between making it easy to select the whole text for the large number of people that just want to share the link, and allowing a small number of people that only want to select part of it to be able to do so.

You can always select from the URL bar of course, if you only want to select part of the link.

Author: aseerel4c26
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.10am, Friday, 25th October 2013]

Replying to [comment:3 TomH]:

I think so too. Still, it is a "defect" from my POV/usecase. The main problem is that the copy-by-select-and-paste-by-middle-click feature (common for Linux at least) is not possible anymore (not sure why it is still working in Chromium).

Sure, there are many workarounds. Still it is annoying.

If this "feature"/defect would be switched off/fixed then Windows users would need to do a double click (usually) in the text box instead of a single click (and copy by crl+c or context menu). Not that much more, right and is expected from textboxes by the user. But for the current behaviour it completely breaks the usual workflow (aka: why the hell, can't I select that text.. damn... ggrrr).

Author: mmd
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.50pm, Wednesday, 3rd June 2020]

You can click on the link so it gets selected, then press "Open Link in new tab".

Closing here.