On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> 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. > > > > > > 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 > > Useful tip! I didn't know about Alt+D, thanks for sharing. :-) The same does Ctrl-L.
