I select some text in another program (maybe a valid URL, maybe not), copy it to the clipboard.
In firefox, I click in the urlbar (or I press F6 enough times to get there) and I type Control-V. And ... nothing happens. Interestingly going directly to a selected URL by mid-clicking on the tab contents does work; and I would be fine with that, except that sometimes I intentionally copy something that is _not_ an URL, intending to edit it inside the urlbar. Also interestingly, it works when I select something in firefox itself; the weird behavior only happens when the selection comes from another program. It's almost as if this was a security feature. If it is, it's an unwanted one. Does everybody else's firefox behave this way. or is this some obscure setting I have unwittingly changed? How can I paste arbitrary text into the urlbar? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
