Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:26:04AM -0700, Alex wrote:
> > One of the things that you have to forgo is official tech support. There
> > isn't any official Mozilla tech support, since it is intended for
> > developers and people (largely volunteers) willing to test Mozilla and
> > report bugs and enhancement suggestions.
>
> Okay. Well, then, here's an enhancement suggestion. :-)
>
> There's no easy way to get the current location into the clipboard.
> Under Netscape, there was a location-bar thingy which I could highlight
> and copy (using whatever copy'n'paste method I needed). Or I could pull up
> "view page info" and get some selectable text.
>
> With moz 0.9, the "view page info" text isn't selectable with the mouse.
> (Maybe that's just a Linux/X11 thing; we don't have a copy for any other
> platform.)
The Email newsgroup clint is not getting full effort while the make the
web browser as close to perfect as possible. The featture you mention is
not turned on as of yet. Nor does view source work as well.
They do need to get on with work on these items as such services as
SpamCop uses the source info to do reverse lookups and send spam reports.
>
> There's no location bar at all, so I can't even tell where I am without
> some mouse operations (that in itself isn't a problem), let alone copy
> the text out. That little textbar on the "navigation bar" doesn't seem
> to have a use, maybe that's just unfinished code.
Actually there is an RFE (Referral For Enhancement) Bug sybmitted by
myself for the Location Toolbar (similar to operation in Communicator
4.7.7 in two pane mode. Although I use a Mac I assumed it was missing
for all platforms and made the referral for all versions.
If you wish to test. And you wish to report on or vote for bug fixes you
can join Bugzilla. If you do decide to go to Bugzilla. you can look up
bug report on Location Bar and vote for it.
>
> Doing a right-click and getting Properties gives an /active/ link, but it
> isn't selectable, and trying to right-click on the link for a "copy link
> location" operation doesn't pop up a menu; it just follows the link to
> where I already am.
>
> Right now if I want to get the current URL into the clipboard, I have to go
> back a page, find the link that led me there (if there is one, and not some
> button/form), do a "copy link location" on it, and then go forward. Ugly.
>
> Thanks again for your time,
> Phil
>
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> The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Despite Mozilla's lack of polish at this point its a far better product
than Netscape6 as much as I regret saying so. I'm begining to think
Netscape/AOL don't give a **** about it.
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