Decode escape character in url

[ourostra]

I would like the Vivaldi address bar to look the same as other browsers. I work as a web developer and sometimes I need to quickly compare values in address parameters. The escape character (e.g. double quotes) encoding makes it hard to quickly compare values if I have a couple parameters with a lot of numbers/characters.

For test let's copy this url: https://www.google.com/search?q=test" paste in address bar and press enter in different browsers:

In Vivaldi address bar it's looks like:

For comparison:
Chrome:

Edge:

I would like the default displayed url to be decoded (like in other browsers), or at least have an option in the settings.

[pauloaguia]

At the same time, if the original URL was already test%22, I would like it to remain so and not to decode it. Just saying...

edit: (for clarification, if it is pasted as test%22 and shows like that in the other browsers, it should show like that in Vivaldi as well, not try to decode it)

[DoctorG]

@ourostra said in Decode escape character in url:

https://www.google.com/search?q=test"

shows https://www.google.com/search?q=test%22

Is ok. A " has to be percent-encoded if sent as a query.

[ourostra]

@doctorg said in Decode escape character in url:

@ourostra said in Decode escape character in url:

https://www.google.com/search?q=test"

shows https://www.google.com/search?q=test%22

Is ok. A " has to be percent-encoded if sent as a query.

Hi. I know that . Everything is functionally fine. I wrote about the displaying, not sending. A comparison to other browsers is in the first post and I would like Vivaldi to display the url in the same way

[pauloaguia]

@doctorg I think @ourostra 's point is that (s?)he'd prefer the browser not to display the encoded version of the URL but rather the way that it was pasted, like the other browsers do. The browser can still encode the URL before sending the request, if needed...

The curious thing is that if I paste an URL using unicode characters ( like https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/音 ), then when I pasted it is displayed encoded ( like

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%B3

) but when I hit Enter and the page is displayed then the unicode character is displayed correctly in the address bar...

Unlike the %22 example, where the " is not displayed instead...

[ourostra]

@pauloaguia Yup. That's the point. Thanks for the comprehensive explanation

[DoctorG]

undecoded params is a bug. It was reported as VB-78690 "[Regression][Address bar] no longer decodes"

[ourostra]

@doctorg and whats the status this bug?

[DoctorG]

@ourostra Confirmed but unfixed for current 4.1 Snapshot and older.

[ourostra]

@doctorg thanks for informations. Maybe someone from Vivaldi team will notice that thread and fix bug

[DoctorG]

@ourostra said in Decode escape character in url:

Maybe someone from Vivaldi team will notice that thread and fix bug

No. Vivaldi devs rarely read here.
But i updated the tracker entry for current internal 4.1 Daily.

[ourostra]

@doctorg Thanks for your help

[DoctorG]

@ourostra I try my best, the more i help here the less if have to test bug reports [hopefully].