Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

[Andrew Lowe]

On 05/18/2015 02:07 PM, Gevisz wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote:
>>> On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote:
>>>>> Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar.
>>>>> I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently.
>>>>
>>>> This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting
>>>> in Chromium does not take over the system clipboard.  When I click once
>>>> it selects the whole address and I can delete it, before I middle click
>>>> to insert whatever was in the clipboard.
>>>>
>>>> As has already been commented, this won't work with FF, which replaces
>>>> the clipboard when I necessarily double click to select the content of
>>>> the address bar.
>>>
>>> I didn't even know Firefox had this behaviour when clicking the address
>>> bar, because it's something I never do.
>>>
>>> I usually use Alt+D on the keyboard, it moves the caret to the location
>>> bar and highlights its text, and I just checked, it doesn't touch the
>>> clipboard.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
>> Useful tip!  I didn't know about Alt+D, thanks for sharing.  :-)
>
> The same does Ctrl-L.
>
>
>

	Thanks to all those who commented. The Alt D & Alt L were good ones,
but I took Pauls advice and had a look at the config, which worked a
treat. In turn I might have a look at fixing the bug that Bruce mentioned.

	Regards,
		Andrew