I hadn’t really noticed this until Lisa pointed it out, but if you click the address bar in Firefox under Ubuntu, it just pops the cursor into whatever address is in there. Under Windows (and possible other Linux Distros and Mac, I don’t know) when you click the address bar it selects the whole thing. I much prefer this way of doing things (now I’ve noticed it!), and found out how to change it thanks to this blog post.
Here’s How:
- Open Firefox
- Enter about:config into the address bar and hit Enter
- In the Filter field enter the text clickselectsall
- Double-click the preference name browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll entry (doing so will change the value to true)
- Restart Firefox
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It’s like that by default in all linux builds (unless some distros patch it out).
It’s because highlighting all will override the contents of the primary selection buffer thingy, which is especially annoying when the contents are a URL you wish to visit.
Bah! Now you’ve pointed that out, it’s going to annoy me! To be fair the only time I use(d) the primary buffer is from irssi to firefox, and I would say it was easier to right click and copy in konsole than the annoyance of a click not selecting the full address bar. Admittedly, if all Platforms’ Firefox did it the Linux way, I would just be used to it by now, and be happy to carry on.
Hmmm – I generally just use Alt-D on both platforms…..
There’s also Ctrl-L and hitting F6 a couple of times. I just tend to use the mouse
Well it annoyed me!
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