Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
On 05/19/2015 09:35 AM, »Q« wrote: ctrl+k does the same thing for the search box. (And if the search box is hidden in your UI, ctrl+k opens about:home and puts the carat in its search box.) For browsers a lot of things are mousey, but for inherently type-y things, I really like the keyboard shortcuts. All (or most) Fx ones are listed at https://support.mozilla.org/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly. I didn't know that either. I've always found Alt+D the easiest to use, and the search box to me is Alt+D then Tab. Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
On Sun, 17 May 2015 22:54:19 +0100, 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. True, it's not that problem, but it is still a problem in other ways, or an annoyance at best. And unlike Firefox, there does not appear to be a way to change it. -- Neil Bothwick Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice? pgp6Nf2XgK68h.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
On Sunday 17 May 2015 19:49:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL. If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string, this can be quite a bit of text to delete. So my question, I suppose, is multipart: 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? Yes. That's how text widgets always work on Unix. Unfortunately not :( 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. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
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. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser
On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL. If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string, this can be quite a bit of text to delete. So my question, I suppose, is multipart: 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? Yes. That's how text widgets always work on Unix. Unfortunately not :( 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. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers pgpAvd64lEZuK.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
