Prevent Google from mangling links on the search results when clicking or copying on Firefox
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| // ==UserScript== | |
| // @name Prevent link mangling on Google | |
| // @namespace LordBusiness.LMG | |
| // @match https://www.google.com/search | |
| // @grant none | |
| // @version 1.1 | |
| // @author radiantly | |
| // @description Prevent google from mangling the link when copying or clicking the link on Firefox | |
| // ==/UserScript== | |
| /* | |
| * If you're on Firefox, you might have noticed that when you try to click (or copy) a link from | |
| * a google search result, it redirects to an intermediate page instead of taking you immediately | |
| * to the search result. This is specifically annoying when trying to copy a google search result | |
| * to send to someone else, because it gives you the mangled google-ified link instead. | |
| * | |
| * The same does not happen on Google Chrome or other chromium browsers. Maybe someone can test | |
| * this on Safari? | |
| * | |
| * To install this script, you'll need a user script manager like ViolentMonkey, after which you | |
| * can click the Raw button (gist.github.com) to install. | |
| */ | |
| (function() { | |
| /* | |
| * The following 3 lines simply prevent the mousedown event from propagating to the respective | |
| * event listeners attached to the various link elements. | |
| * | |
| * On testing, this does not seem to break any actual functionality on the site. | |
| */ | |
| window.addEventListener("mousedown", (event) => { | |
| event.stopImmediatePropagation(); | |
| }, true); | |
| })(); |