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

2015-05-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/19/2015 09:35 AM, »Q« wrote: > ctrl+k does the same thing for the search box. (And if the search box > is hidden in your UI, ctrl+k opens about:home and puts the carat in its > search box.) > > For browsers a lot of things are mousey, but for inherently type-y > things, I really like the ke

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

2015-05-19 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 17 May 2015 14:41:21 -0700 walt wrote: > I've noticed that, when running linux, the end result of "selecting" > text can depend on which "Desktop Environment" you are using. Yes indeed. If the DE comes with a clipboard manager (most do), it pays to play around with the manager's config

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

2015-05-19 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 18 May 2015 09:07:34 +0300 Gevisz wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick > wrote: > > > On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: > > > 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 >

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

2015-05-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-05-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: [clicking the URL "text field" doesn't select the entire string, just makes it active.] >> > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? >> >> Yes. That's how text widgets always work

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

2015-05-18 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 05/18/2015 02:07 PM, Gevisz wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick wrote: > >> On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: >>> 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 doin

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

2015-05-17 Thread Gevisz
On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: > > 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. > > >

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

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: > 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

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

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Frey
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 sys

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

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 May 2015 22:54:19 +0100, 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 ta

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

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 May 2015 19:49:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > 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

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

2015-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/16/2015 10:52 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > 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 wh

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

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > 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

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

2015-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-05-17, Andrew Lowe wrote: > 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 Yeat, I _hate_ that. > and if I begin typing, the existing text