Please be aware that this submits it to your search engine, so if you cleaning up passwords, etc this way you are essentially leaking them.

I turn that off when I first setup my browser.

I wouldn’t be so sure it doesn’t get logged anyway, at least locally.

This is a tiny bit more hardcore because it also trims any whitespace from the beginning and end of the string, and it strips out all newline chars. It's very handy quite often, though.

This or a textedit window that is set to plaintext

The combination of Ctrl+C - Ctrl+T - Ctrl+V - Ctrl+A - Ctrl+X - Ctrl+W is pretty much hardcoded into my brain.

On iOS, I find it nearly impossible to work with the URL bar. It is faster and less frustrating to simply pull out my laptop.

I’m not the only one!

I've doing Menu | Edit | Paste and Match Style like I guess you're supposed to do?