On 05/18/2015 02:07 PM, Gevisz wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.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