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From: Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 06:13:45
Message-Id: 5559830d.0617c20a.6137.fffffc63@mx.google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser by Mick
1 On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote:
4 > > On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote:
5 > > >> Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar.
6 > > >> I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently.
7 > > >
8 > > > This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting
9 > > > in Chromium does not take over the system clipboard. When I click once
10 > > > it selects the whole address and I can delete it, before I middle click
11 > > > to insert whatever was in the clipboard.
12 > > >
13 > > > As has already been commented, this won't work with FF, which replaces
14 > > > the clipboard when I necessarily double click to select the content of
15 > > > the address bar.
16 > >
17 > > I didn't even know Firefox had this behaviour when clicking the address
18 > > bar, because it's something I never do.
19 > >
20 > > I usually use Alt+D on the keyboard, it moves the caret to the location
21 > > bar and highlights its text, and I just checked, it doesn't touch the
22 > > clipboard.
23 > >
24 > > Dan
25 >
26 > Useful tip! I didn't know about Alt+D, thanks for sharing. :-)
27
28 The same does Ctrl-L.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
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