Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar
Hello all, I have noticed this behaviour in Firefox recently. When the cursor is in the location bar and I press "Ctrl+U" to delete the text, Firefox opens the "View Source" window. This is annoying as it changes a basic linux shortcut's functionality. It was working fine till 0.9.3 and the change has only happened in 0.10+ versions. Mozilla suite still kills the text in location bar with Ctrl+U but Firefox has changed. Is it possible to revert back the behaviour? Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029 Firefox/1.0RC1 (Debian package 0.99+1.0RC1-1) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 Thanks, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar
On Sun 31 October 2004 13:08, [KS] wrote: > Hello all, > > I have noticed this behaviour in Firefox recently. When the cursor is > in the location bar and I press "Ctrl+U" to delete the text, Firefox > opens the "View Source" window. This is annoying as it changes a > basic linux shortcut's functionality. Can't say I've ever understood this particular problem since Ctrl+L does essentially the same thing, and without having to select the address bar first as well. Or install the Diggler extension. I also dispute that this is a "basic linux shortcut" since it is in fact a vi shortcut. Mozilla uses a hodgepodge of both vi and emacs shortcuts in text areas in Linux. > > It was working fine till 0.9.3 and the change has only happened in > 0.10+ versions. Mozilla suite still kills the text in location bar > with Ctrl+U but Firefox has changed. Is it possible to revert back > the behaviour? See Mozilla bugs 189615 and 260188. This was changed because too many bugs were being filed on the old behaviour. I agree they're useful in text areas in the page itself, I'm far less convinced they're useful in the url and search bars since selecting the bar itself via keyboard shortcut selects the contents for overwriting. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189615 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260188 From comment #18 of the latter: << ...add the following two lines to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file: include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc" gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" >> You should also be able to change it from the GNOME control centre somewhere (beats me where - I can't stand GNOME). What this means is that Firefox now respects whatever behaviour you have set GNOME and all GNOME apps to use, which in the end makes more sense. HTH, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpvJjIoZVY0u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar
[KS] wrote: Hello all, I have noticed this behaviour in Firefox recently. When the cursor is in the location bar and I press "Ctrl+U" to delete the text, Firefox opens the "View Source" window. This is annoying as it changes a basic linux shortcut's functionality. Well, that depends on what you think is `basic linux shortcut functionality'. But yes, I'm used to using the emacs-like shortcuts, and it annoyed me too. To fix (in firefox and all/many? other gnome apps), eighter run gnome-keybinding-properties from the shell and set `text editing shortcuts' to "Emacs", or do the same in Applications->DesctopPreferences->KeyboardShortcuts from the Gnome menu. -- Groetjes joostje 1f1c8cdd94ddb3264368a4ec8c8369f4-592b9df7b0a20369a50b47f8db73f8b635bc637c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar
David P James wrote: On Sun 31 October 2004 13:08, [KS] wrote: Hello all, I have noticed this behaviour in Firefox recently. When the cursor is in the location bar and I press "Ctrl+U" to delete the text, Firefox opens the "View Source" window. This is annoying as it changes a basic linux shortcut's functionality. Can't say I've ever understood this particular problem since Ctrl+L does essentially the same thing, and without having to select the address bar first as well. Or install the Diggler extension. I also dispute that this is a "basic linux shortcut" since it is in fact a vi shortcut. Mozilla uses a hodgepodge of both vi and emacs shortcuts in text areas in Linux. I thought it was a basic linux shortcut as I could use it on a terminal on various Linux flavours I have tired. Didn't know that it actually came from Emacs. It was working fine till 0.9.3 and the change has only happened in 0.10+ versions. Mozilla suite still kills the text in location bar with Ctrl+U but Firefox has changed. Is it possible to revert back the behaviour? And now with this new version there is another package that I had to install, mozilla-firefox-gnome-support. I think why everyone suggested changing GNOME preferences. See Mozilla bugs 189615 and 260188. This was changed because too many bugs were being filed on the old behaviour. I agree they're useful in text areas in the page itself, I'm far less convinced they're useful in the url and search bars since selecting the bar itself via keyboard shortcut selects the contents for overwriting. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189615 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260188 From comment #18 of the latter: << ...add the following two lines to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file: include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc" gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" Tried that. Didn't work! You should also be able to change it from the GNOME control centre somewhere (beats me where - I can't stand GNOME). What this means is that Firefox now respects whatever behaviour you have set GNOME and all GNOME apps to use, which in the end makes more sense. HTH, I got another way to deal with the Ctrl+U thing. from b.m.o #189615 I learnt that intead of "selecting url, focusing in location bar, Ctrl+U, mouse middle click to paste url", I could just middle click in the body of a tab and it will open that url. Neat. Thanks for all the suggestions, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Either not Eighther [Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar]
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:59:50PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > To fix (in firefox and all/many? other gnome apps), eighter run either pronounced EEE-thER or EYE-thER (soft th) not ether [the gas that puts you to sleep] pronounced ETHer (hard th) or eight (ATE) either is not pronounced as AY-ther, which is a latinate word aether, which is the fifth element (air, fire, water, earth, aether). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Either not Eighther [Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar]
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:35:45PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:59:50PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > > To fix (in firefox and all/many? other gnome apps), eighter run > > either > pronounced EEE-thER or EYE-thER (soft th) > not ether [the gas that puts you to sleep] pronounced ETHer (hard th) "And no ether, eether." "EYE-ther." :-) > or eight (ATE) > > either is not pronounced as AY-ther, which is a latinate word > aether, which is the fifth element (air, fire, water, earth, aether). I thought the fifth element was called Leeloo... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: OT: Either not Eighther [Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar]
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:35:03 +: > > --BFVE2HhgxTpCzM8t > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:35:45PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:59:50PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > > > To fix (in firefox and all/many? other gnome apps), eighter run > >=20 > > either > > pronounced EEE-thER or EYE-thER (soft th) > > not ether [the gas that puts you to sleep] pronounced ETHer (hard th) > > "And no ether, eether." Nor aether, or even æther. Sigh. Maybe ethanol. Yeah, that's the ticket. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ This is a dirty hack! It might burn your PC and kill your cat! -- mpg123.c source -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
