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Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a |
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> bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or |
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> search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin |
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> typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the |
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> contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click |
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> into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing |
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> or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL. |
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> If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string, |
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> this can be quite a bit of text to delete. |
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> So my question, I suppose, is multipart: |
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> 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? |
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> 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour? |
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> 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long |
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> URL's, such as a Google search results? |
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> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, |
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> Andrew |
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You can try to double/triple click the text. |
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Or use <Ctrl+L> or <F6>. |
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I am using vimperator with gui=None, so I don't see the url/search bar. |
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I simply hit "o" or "t" and start typing ;) |
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Concerning the other points: I can't tell you if it's intentional. I never cared ;) |
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You can argue that canging the URL gets mor difficult with the way it works on WIN |
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An I don't think this depends on USE-Flags. |