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.  :-)

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Regards,
Mick

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