You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 3:39 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: You must be joking by madscientist
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

my work-around is to just open a new tab to paste the URL into (and a history of doing this is why I have a couple hundred tabs open :-)

You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 7:07 UTC (Mon) by mp (subscriber, #5615) [Link] (1 responses)

In Firefox middle-clicking anywhere in the window opens the URL from the selection, no need to open new tabs and aim at the tiny address bar.

You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 7:14 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

that's a configurable option. I don't remember when I first ran into it, but I hunted down how to disable it and have happily used the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab instead (I got _so_ annoyed at slightly missing a link or text bar and the entire page disappearing on my when firefos opened some random URL that it thought I wanted to go to, or a search for the text that happened to be in the clipboard)