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Add a setting to make links non-clickable #13066

Open GilianJuice opened 3 months ago

GilianJuice commented 3 months ago

Is there an existing request for this feature?

Is your feature request related to a problem?

The problem is that Postman makes all links in requests and responses clickable by default. When I click such a link, Postman opens a new tab inside Postman with the link in the URL field. I don't understand why it works like this by default, it's very rare that I actually want to open a link inside Postman itself. When the link is an URL to an external thing, such as an image or a file, I would want to open it in my browser, not in Postman. When it's a link to the API, to a different endpoint or to load the next page of results for example, opening a new tab without headers, authentication, body etc is kinda pointless. It's easier to duplicate my request and then change the URL.

Sometimes I want to copy a part of a link from an API response, such as a product ID or whatever, that is really hard to do when Postman wants to open that link in a new tab whenever I click in it to select (part of) the URL. Often I just accidentally click a link when I want to click something else, then Postman adds a new tab and I have to close it again. When closing the tab, Postman doesn't even switch back to the tab I came from, it switches to the most right tab that I have active.

Describe the solution you'd like

I understand that some people maybe do like links to be clickable, so my suggestion is to make a setting for it so people can decide for themselves what they want. The default value for this setting can be so that current behavior of Postman doesn't change. People who want to change the behavior can then do it with that setting.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I found that I can right-click a link in Postman and choose "Copy" to copy the entire link. This helps in some cases, but not if I want to copy a part of the URL or accidentally click it.

Additional context

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maksymlumen commented 1 week ago

Yeah, this is annoying. Postman does that when you even trying to copy selected text with a link in it.

dnlpva commented 13 hours ago

This would be a nice feature to have.