The Copy URL extension was intermittently failing to copy anything, and
its notification looked oversized with no icon. Several distinct problems:
- The MV3 service worker was pinned to stale cached code. Chromium caches
the worker script for a --load-extension command-line extension and does
NOT re-register it when the file changes in place — not on restart, not on
a manifest version bump, not even after a clean shutdown. So updated code
never took effect: the old worker kept calling chrome.scripting.executeScript,
which throws once the scripting permission is gone, and the copy silently
failed. Renaming the worker to a versioned filename (background-2.js) is a
new script URL, which forces a fresh registration for everyone — new
installs and existing installs alike. Rename it again on any future worker
change (see the note at the top of background-2.js).
- Clipboard writes now go through an offscreen document (MV3's sanctioned
path) using a textarea + execCommand('copy'), replacing executeScript +
navigator.clipboard. This works on chrome:// pages and needs no scripting
permission. execCommand is used deliberately: navigator.clipboard.writeText
rejects in an unfocused offscreen document.
- Add a toolbar action (chrome.action.onClicked) so the extension is
clickable, not keyboard-only — it was greyed out in the extensions menu
with nothing to invoke.
- Slim the "URL copied" notification: lead the summary with a glyph so the
omarchy notification shell collapses it to a single-line toast with an
icon, instead of an oversized card with a blank icon slot.
- Guard the Quattro shortcut-repair migration: it edits Chromium Preferences
to move the Alt+Shift+L binding to the new extension id, but a running
browser rewrites Preferences on exit and reverts the edit. Prompt (via gum)
to close the browser first, only when a browser is running and there is
actually a stale binding to repair.
Download the current page's video with yt-dlp via Alt+Shift+D or a click
on the toolbar icon. A native-messaging host runs the download, shows live
progress on the Quickshell OSD, and posts a clickable "Download complete"
toast that opens the file in mpv.
- Extension: pinned key for a stable id, green download-video icon,
keyboard command + toolbar action (reads the active tab URL).
- Native host (omarchy-chromium-ytdlp-host): verifies the URL with
yt-dlp --simulate (else "No video found"), streams progress to the OSD
(time-throttled to ~4/s), saves to ~/Videos, opens mpv on click.
- Installer (omarchy-install-chromium-ytdlp) writes the native-messaging
manifest into installed Chromium/Chrome/Brave/Edge profiles; wired into
browser install and chromium refresh, with a migration for existing users.
- omarchy-osd: add -d/--duration so the OSD can persist during a download.
- Add yt-dlp to base packages, load the extension via --load-extension,
and document the Alt+Shift+D binding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Copy current URL to clipboard with browser extension
In Omarchy web apps it's impossible to get the curent URL to share it in
another applications. This commit adds a browser extension which is
included by default via the chromium-flags.conf config. With this
extension you can get the current URL via a keyboard shortcut.
The default shortcut for getting the current URL is `Ctrl+Shift+L`, this
shortcut can be changed via this page: chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
* Change the shortcut to Alt+Shift+L
In my testing and research I found out that not all shortcuts
are available as suggested_key. We still want to use L because
that's easy to remember because we associate it with the location bar.
* Improve notification language
* Move it to just Alt + L since that's not used
Better mirrors Ctrl + L as well
* Move this under default/chromium
* Fix symlink
* It didn't like Alt+L alone after all
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Co-authored-by: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>
David Heinemeier Hansson