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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 18:50:07
Message-Id: 20150517194930.5852a459@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser by Grant Edwards
1 On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
2
3 > > and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm
4 > > typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it
5 > > doesn't. I have to click into the appropriate edit box, highlight
6 > > the contents and start typing or hit either home/end and then start
7 > > deleting before typing my new URL. If, for example, the existing
8 > > text happens to be a google search string, this can be quite a bit
9 > > of text to delete.
10 > >
11 > > So my question, I suppose, is multipart:
12 > >
13 > > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour?
14 >
15 > Yes. That's how text widgets always work on Unix.
16
17 Unfortunately not :(
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19 Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm
20 not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently.
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24 Neil Bothwick
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26 WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>