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On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> >> Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. |
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> >> I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently. |
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> > This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting |
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> > in Chromium does not take over the system clipboard. When I click once |
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> > it selects the whole address and I can delete it, before I middle click |
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> > to insert whatever was in the clipboard. |
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> > As has already been commented, this won't work with FF, which replaces |
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> > the clipboard when I necessarily double click to select the content of |
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> > the address bar. |
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> I didn't even know Firefox had this behaviour when clicking the address |
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> bar, because it's something I never do. |
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> I usually use Alt+D on the keyboard, it moves the caret to the location |
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> bar and highlights its text, and I just checked, it doesn't touch the |
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> clipboard. |
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> Dan |
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Useful tip! I didn't know about Alt+D, thanks for sharing. :-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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