From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2687138CD1 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 12:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A90C1E0896; Sun, 17 May 2015 12:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F110E0882 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 12:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgfl8 with SMTP id l8so6472925wgf.2 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 05:01:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OT9UbJVvdGBDBjswlCLS6/Oo9P7qACPsVakWRXoCSc0=; b=Pj1UJv28yqzBSxjC9sTI1pdgbQCc04jamDsvAhnoKdIjQYMsxW+f0z2TphMeZLpqXy +ZNw2VbTD5jw+g3zI6NqnVK4oFTZHVxypNsZlr+KSGepho3NvC6SIl5+my5O2OomAPZ+ CUBJFsQuUHsdz9zCAJME3nFURSbCVxLHHUBTpptqjKglW3MUGASz1WkzPI0wpFii1ZWD 3NmYmWOVBZVrQV1/ob6nAeJjWNJqPc0JaLJMNNMG0ou13DL2aa7bpNjgvMMWu/DOgDXx We2FEUXL1y4hmpmit1OHYxDN4AE3bDLLo1pHX3k03zOBDFSwkHSJ223fAagNFib4RXW9 7gJA== X-Received: by 10.181.11.137 with SMTP id ei9mr12812516wid.48.1431864113327; Sun, 17 May 2015 05:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p5B0C50F3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [91.12.80.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ei8sm11737754wjd.32.2015.05.17.05.01.52 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 17 May 2015 05:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5558832F.8040508@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 14:01:51 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser References: <55582C95.7080706@wht.com.au> <3865621.9LljkNoKxX@apollo> In-Reply-To: <3865621.9LljkNoKxX@apollo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: afb75576-011d-4d75-b8d0-d3c54639c630 X-Archives-Hash: 55155886f88d57adb5532b859d6be13d Am 17.05.2015 um 11:39 schrieb Paul Klos: > Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: >> 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 >> > Hi Andrew, > > You might be interested in these settings (from about:config): > > browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll > browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll > > You can configure what happens when you click in the address bar. > > I have no idea why the defaults on win/linux are different, though, > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > maybe because in linux selecting = copying. So if you select with a simple click you might overwrite the contents of the clipboard = highly annoying.