Drag-Drop URL from Browser Bar Copies URL Only, not Page Title

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Steps to reproduce

Drag-and-drop any URL from the URL bar in Chrome (Windows) into an Obsidian doc. Only the URL copies, which results in a page full of unreadable links after a research session.

For example a YouTube video appears as;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz99I7apNLI&ab_channel=TiagoForte

Expected result

It should instead create a correct Markdown link with the document title (which is part of the clipboard data).

[The Rise of Obsidian as a Second Brain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz99I7apNLI&ab_channel=TiagoForte)

Actual result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz99I7apNLI&ab_channel=TiagoForte

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.2.8
Installer version: v1.2.8
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.18362
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

I’m primarily using Chrome, but have been unable to get the page title to appear with any browser I’ve tested. This results in a LOT of additional work.

I’ve found an old request to repair this which indicated it would be fixed in 0.10.0? I’m hopeful it’s just a setting I need to switch on, but I’d think this should be the default behavior.

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there’s nothing we can do. this depends on what the data browser provides while drag and dropping. Drag and drop a link from a within a page works.

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Not sure if this will solve your problem, but the “Auto Link Title” plugin does a pretty good job of fetching titles for links. It pulls the <head><title>Title</title></head> from the raw HTML.

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