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You must be joking

Posted Nov 9, 2010 5:20 UTC (Tue) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: You must be joking by madscientist
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

AFAICT Firefox has an interesting tweak to this -- Control-L selects the text in the URL bar, *without* claiming the PRIMARY selection (which selecting the same text with the mouse would do). So to paste the PRIMARY selection into the current tab's URL bar, one can use the sequence: Control-L, backspace, middle-click.


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You must be joking

Posted Nov 14, 2010 4:57 UTC (Sun) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]

... which is exactly why I hate using FF. Konqueror has a "delete" button to rub out the old URL.

You must be joking

Posted Nov 14, 2010 6:10 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

In FF just middle-click the favicon to the left of the URL. Instead of taking 2 clicks, it takes a single click.

Seems a rather weak reason to hate a browser.

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