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