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
