Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a > bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or > search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted 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? > > 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour? > > 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long > URL's, such as a Google search results? > > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, > > Andrew >
You can try to double/triple click the text. Or use <Ctrl+L> or <F6>. I am using vimperator with gui=None, so I don't see the url/search bar. I simply hit "o" or "t" and start typing ;) Concerning the other points: I can't tell you if it's intentional. I never cared ;) You can argue that canging the URL gets mor difficult with the way it works on WIN An I don't think this depends on USE-Flags.
