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Ran into something rather odd today, I'm unable to paste a string from my clipboard starting with javascript: to the chrome address bar - the javascript: portion is stripped.

What is going on here? Is there a reason chrome is automatically stripping it out? The context is I wanted to copy-paste some javascript to run. (http://nategood.com/quickly-add-and-edit-cookies-in-chrome)

I can paste strings containing javascript:, and I can type it out manually, but I cant paste if the string starts with javascript:. This only happens with the address bar

Examples of what happens when I try copy strings (both Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v and middle-mouse)

javascript: -  (nothing is pasted)
javascript:test - test
javascript://test - //test
test javascript: - test javascript:

Output from about://version

Google Chrome   47.0.2526.80 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision    9fd42dd40d33146ff9afd92f51714f0426c1247c-refs/branch-heads/2526@{#505}
OS  Linux 
Blink   537.36 (@9fd42dd40d33146ff9afd92f51714f0426c1247c)
JavaScript  V8 4.7.80.25
Flash   20.0.0.267
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.80 Safari/537.36
Command Line    /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --flag-switches-begin --enable-tab-audio-muting --flag-switches-end
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"So with the most recent facebook phishing scandal, google chrome(and i assume other browsers) disabled the ability to paste javascript directly into your URL bar. Well it still lets you, but it strips the "javascript: " part. "

From here. That's literally the second google hit.

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