[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-19 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 17 May 2015 14:41:21 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that, when running linux, the end result of selecting text can depend on which Desktop Environment you are using. Yes indeed. If the DE comes with a clipboard manager (most do), it pays to play around with the

[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-19 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 18 May 2015 09:07:34 +0300 Gevisz gev...@gmail.com 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: I usually use Alt+D on the keyboard, it moves the caret to the location bar and highlights its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-19 Thread Daniel Frey
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-05-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: [clicking the URL text field doesn't select the entire string, just makes it active.] 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? Yes. That's how text widgets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-18 Thread Gevisz
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-18 Thread Andrew Lowe
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Frey
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/16/2015 10:52 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-05-17, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: 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 Yeat, I _hate_ that. and if I begin typing, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
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