diff --git a/browser/components/places/PlacesUIUtils.sys.mjs b/browser/components/places/PlacesUIUtils.sys.mjs
index 710f755fe986..1f5e163bae58 100644
--- a/browser/components/places/PlacesUIUtils.sys.mjs
+++ b/browser/components/places/PlacesUIUtils.sys.mjs
@@ -1520,48 +1520,9 @@ export var PlacesUIUtils = {
       let window = this.triggerNode.ownerGlobal;
       switch (command) {
         case "placesCmd_copy": {
-          // This is a little hacky, but there is a lot of code in Places that handles
-          // clipboard stuff, so it's easier to reuse.
-          let node = {};
-          node.type = 0;
-          node.title = this.triggerNode.label;
-          node.uri = this.triggerNode.link;
-
-          // Copied from _populateClipboard in controller.js
-
-          // This order is _important_! It controls how this and other applications
-          // select data to be inserted based on type.
-          let contents = [
-            { type: lazy.PlacesUtils.TYPE_X_MOZ_URL, entries: [] },
-            { type: lazy.PlacesUtils.TYPE_HTML, entries: [] },
-            { type: lazy.PlacesUtils.TYPE_PLAINTEXT, entries: [] },
-          ];
-
-          contents.forEach(function (content) {
-            content.entries.push(lazy.PlacesUtils.wrapNode(node, content.type));
-          });
-
-          let xferable = Cc[
-            "@mozilla.org/widget/transferable;1"
-          ].createInstance(Ci.nsITransferable);
-          xferable.init(null);
-
-          function addData(type, data) {
-            xferable.addDataFlavor(type);
-            xferable.setTransferData(
-              type,
-              lazy.PlacesUtils.toISupportsString(data)
-            );
-          }
-
-          contents.forEach(function (content) {
-            addData(content.type, content.entries.join(lazy.PlacesUtils.endl));
-          });
-
-          Services.clipboard.setData(
-            xferable,
-            null,
-            Ci.nsIClipboard.kGlobalClipboard
+          lazy.BrowserUtils.copyLink(
+            this.triggerNode.link,
+            this.triggerNode.label
           );
           break;
         }
diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs b/toolkit/components/places/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs
index 40870c43a79e..357363850d20 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs
@@ -972,6 +972,40 @@ export var PlacesUtils = {
     return url.host.split("").reverse().join("") + ".";
   },
 
+  /**
+   * Copy a single places result node, recursively if applicable.
+   *
+   * @param {Object} node
+   *    The node to copy. If not a real places node but a single
+   *    title/URL combination, you must set `type` to 0 (aka RESULT_TYPE_URI),
+   *    and provide a `title` and `uri` property which should both be strings.
+   */
+  copyNode(node) {
+    // This order is _important_! It controls how this and other applications
+    // select data to be inserted based on type.
+    let contentTypes = [
+      this.TYPE_X_MOZ_URL,
+      this.TYPE_HTML,
+      this.TYPE_PLAINTEXT,
+    ];
+
+    let xferable = Cc["@mozilla.org/widget/transferable;1"].createInstance(
+      Ci.nsITransferable
+    );
+    xferable.init(null);
+    for (let contentType of contentTypes) {
+      xferable.addDataFlavor(contentType);
+      let data = this.wrapNode(node, contentType);
+      xferable.setTransferData(contentType, this.toISupportsString(data));
+    }
+
+    Services.clipboard.setData(
+      xferable,
+      null,
+      Ci.nsIClipboard.kGlobalClipboard
+    );
+  },
+
   /**
    * String-wraps a result node according to the rules of the specified
    * content type for copy or move operations.
diff --git a/toolkit/modules/BrowserUtils.sys.mjs b/toolkit/modules/BrowserUtils.sys.mjs
index d4068f284b0a..257d72c6dcf7 100644
--- a/toolkit/modules/BrowserUtils.sys.mjs
+++ b/toolkit/modules/BrowserUtils.sys.mjs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { XPCOMUtils } from "resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.sys.mjs";
 
 const lazy = {};
 ChromeUtils.defineESModuleGetters(lazy, {
+  PlacesUtils: "resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs",
   ReaderMode: "moz-src:///toolkit/components/reader/ReaderMode.sys.mjs",
   Region: "resource://gre/modules/Region.sys.mjs",
 });
@@ -144,6 +145,24 @@ export var BrowserUtils = {
     );
   },
 
+  /**
+   * Copy a link with a text label to the clipboard.
+   *
+   * @param {string} url
+   *   The URL we're wanting to copy to the clipboard.
+   * @param {string} title
+   *   The label/title of the URL
+   */
+  copyLink(url, title) {
+    // This is a little hacky, but there is a lot of code in Places that handles
+    // clipboard stuff, so it's easier to reuse.
+    let node = {};
+    node.type = 0;
+    node.title = title;
+    node.uri = url;
+    lazy.PlacesUtils.copyNode(node);
+  },
+
   /**
    * Returns true if |mimeType| is text-based, or false otherwise.
    *