Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On 2015-03-10 13:36 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote: Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. It's normally only used for display, iceweasel should still send the %20 to the server. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? Yes, set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/878uf4x32q@turtle.gmx.de
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Wednesday 11 March 2015 00:09:45 Dan Purgert wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:31:31 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [lotsa snipping] Now, I gotta go find some PVC fittings. Anybody know where I can find a circular saw that can cut an 19 diameter hole in a 40+ yo concrete floor? That will at least start the 23 deep, 18 diameter sump pit needed. ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett Local tool rental place, personally I'd use one of the small / independent outfits instead of a big-box store (such as Home Depot). Though it's loads easier cutting a square hole than a round one. True, if you don't mind the dust. In this case the sump pit is a heavy fiber re-enforced plastic casting. That I've already perforated with about 500 1/8 drill holes. It needs an 18 diameter hole, 23 deep to sit in. As for the dust, I have a 75 yo lady with an advancing case of COPD to consider on the 1st floor. The dust from a diamond saw would not be good on either set of lungs. So I expect the concrete will be punched with a spud bar, and carried out in a 5 gallon bucket. Or possibly rent an electric jackhammer. I should cut a plywood circle to be used as a test fitter, and once the concrete is out, a clamshell post hole digger can extract the rest of the hole. Dirt/clay disposal isn't a problem as I've some low spots in the back yard that could stand leveling up. It is carrying it up the steps w/o making a huge mess of muddy footprints, and how many times I can do it with my arthritically damaged back that controls how long it will take. I rigged a 40 year old Gast carbon vane pump with a sucker intake made out of a jar lid and left it run all night. Looks like it put 50 gallons of the water down the tub drain running overnight. Or more. It finally ran out of cooling water so I turned it off restarted the dehumidifiers just now. TMI, and off topic. Thats life, for as long as you have it... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503110610.45425.ghesk...@wdtv.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On 2015-03-11, Dan Purgert d...@djph.net wrote: Local tool rental place, personally I'd use one of the small / independent outfits instead of a big-box store (such as Home Depot). Though it's loads easier cutting a square hole than a round one. What's hard is fitting a square peg in a round hole, so it really depends on the peg what kind of hole you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmfvtvu.2b6.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 08:59:29 Brian wrote: On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. I can't prove it at the moment without more digging than I want to invest the time for, but I believe that either this is a purely cosmetic issue (i.e. it's done only for display purposes), or the spaces should and indeed must be translated back to %20 before being transmitted - exactly _because_ a URL cannot contain a space. I believe it's far more likely that the actual problem is somewhere else. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? I have looked without seeing a likely suspect. Love it! :) Why? You are using what is probably an ancient edition of a mail agent on an unknown distribution and into the bargain you're running a DE which does not have packages in Debian. I am tempted to call bs on this. The DE change was forced on me by the broken font handling in the kmail that is part of wheezy. So I am like the pollack looking for a car that works so he can get to work, and TDE does. I fussed about that font rendering in the wheezy version of kmail, right here on this list, which makes a version number like 3.3.7p1 into an unreadable mess about 3 characters wide by piling them up on top of each other, and no one had a clue, and I don't believe it has ever been fixed. Do you have a bug-report number for this? I'd be interested in looking into the history a bit more. Backing up from the .7 release to the .5 release fixed that right up. Above, you say that you're running kmail 1.13.7. Here, you say you're running the .5 release of kmail, with the implication that the .7 release is what is provided in wheezy. However, according to 'apt-cache policy' on my computer, the version of kmail in current stable (which is codenamed wheezy) is 4.4.11. That's quite a version difference. What exact version numbers are you working with, here? Why does that make me the b-a here? Copy the URL directly into iceweasel. I can do that, but wheezy's much too critical mouse placement, demanding that the pointer is on the exact pixel means I have to do it several times to stand a chance of doing it right. How are you going about doing the copying? In my experience, there are two different paste buffers available in Linux, which are accessed in two different ways. One of them contains whatever text was last highlighted by the mouse, and you can paste from it by middle-clicking in an application which supports that. The other contains whatever text you last issued an explicit Copy command on (such as by highlighting text and pressing Ctrl-C, or right-clicking on a link and selecting Copy URL), and you can paste from it by pressing Ctrl-V. Highlighting the exact text you need to copy, for the middle-click paste buffer, is indeed somewhat finicky and can require what seems like pixel-perfect mouse-cursor positioning. However, a right-click and select Copy URL approach is nowhere near that finicky. I don't use and am not familiar with kmail, but since it apparently provides the ability to click on a link and have it be opened in an external program, I would be very much surprised if it did not provide a Copy URL feature like that. Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by the contents of said malformed address bar. So instead of fixing it so one can edit it and fix it, you have to start from scratch, redoing the whole copy/paste. Neither is exactly user friendly. This is only a problem if you're using the middle-click paste buffer. Clicking into the address bar will highlight the existing URL, and will therefore overwrite the contents of the middle-click paste buffer - but it will not affect the contents of the Ctrl-V paste buffer. I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click Copy Link Location, switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? I have looked without seeing a likely suspect. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503100836.52103.ghesk...@wdtv.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? I have looked without seeing a likely suspect. Love it! :) You are using what is probably an ancient edition of a mail agent on an unknown distribution and into the bargain you're running a DE which does not have packages in Debian. Copy the URL directly into iceweasel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/10032015125155.c1979db3e...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 08:59:29 Brian wrote: On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? I have looked without seeing a likely suspect. Love it! :) Why? You are using what is probably an ancient edition of a mail agent on an unknown distribution and into the bargain you're running a DE which does not have packages in Debian. I am tempted to call bs on this. The DE change was forced on me by the broken font handling in the kmail that is part of wheezy. So I am like the pollack looking for a car that works so he can get to work, and TDE does. I fussed about that font rendering in the wheezy version of kmail, right here on this list, which makes a version number like 3.3.7p1 into an unreadable mess about 3 characters wide by piling them up on top of each other, and no one had a clue, and I don't believe it has ever been fixed. Backing up from the .7 release to the .5 release fixed that right up. I tried to install wheezy, but wasn't able to install it without letting it use the whole drive as one big / directory, the partitioner is broken and will not let you proceed after you have partitioned the drive the way it should be, so the only way to install it to let it autopartition the whole drive. No autopartition to it, you get a /, and a swap thats 2x the memory in the machine. And its 500 megs into swap on an 8Gb machine in 24 hours uptime! But all I got for replies at the time were defenses of a broken installer. Everyone when pressed claimed they could do what I couldn't make it do, but no one suggested a method that worked. So I used a wheezy based distro whose installer Just Worked. Why does that make me the b-a here? Copy the URL directly into iceweasel. I can do that, but wheezy's much too critical mouse placement, demanding that the pointer is on the exact pixel means I have to do it several times to stand a chance of doing it right. Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by the contents of said malformed address bar. So instead of fixing it so one can edit it and fix it, you have to start from scratch, redoing the whole copy/paste. Neither is exactly user friendly. Thanks Brian. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503100959.54364.ghesk...@wdtv.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On 2015-03-10, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 15:06:26 The Wanderer wrote: However, I also sometimes right-click, Copy Link Location, hit F6 to shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. Thanks, Wanderer! Lisi Yeah, I second the motion. Just tried it and it works nicely. Thank you, Wanderer (isn't it time to settle down?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmfu8vv.2m1.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:31:31 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [lotsa snipping] Now, I gotta go find some PVC fittings. Anybody know where I can find a circular saw that can cut an 19 diameter hole in a 40+ yo concrete floor? That will at least start the 23 deep, 18 diameter sump pit needed. ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett Local tool rental place, personally I'd use one of the small / independent outfits instead of a big-box store (such as Home Depot). Though it's loads easier cutting a square hole than a round one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mdof69$ei4$2...@ger.gmane.org
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: Above, you say that you're running kmail 1.13.7. However, according to 'apt-cache policy' on my computer, the version of kmail in current stable (which is codenamed wheezy) is 4.4.11. That's quite a version difference. What exact version numbers are you working with, here? Gene is using TDE R14, a fork of KDE3, because he liked the old KDE3. KMail is the current name still of the KMail application in TDE. It is what I am using. But the current KMail is 1.9.10, which is what Gene must be using, so I am a little baffled as to where 1.13.7 comes from . Full name for use in apt kmail-trinity. Here, you say you're running the .5 release of kmail, with the implication that the .7 release is what is provided in wheezy. This refers to KMail in KDE4, so I'll pass! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101456.03829.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 15:06:26 The Wanderer wrote: However, I also sometimes right-click, Copy Link Location, hit F6 to shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. Thanks, Wanderer! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101519.47969.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On 03/10/2015 at 10:31 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by the contents of said malformed address bar. So instead of fixing it so one can edit it and fix it, you have to start from scratch, redoing the whole copy/paste. Neither is exactly user friendly. This is only a problem if you're using the middle-click paste buffer. Clicking into the address bar will highlight the existing URL, and will therefore overwrite the contents of the middle-click paste buffer - but it will not affect the contents of the Ctrl-V paste buffer. I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click Copy Link Location, switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. ...but is irrelevant to the problem you're presenting, because in a new tab there is no address-bar text to be pulled into the paste buffer. However, I also sometimes right-click, Copy Link Location, hit F6 to shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click Copy Link Location, switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. Thank you for that! I have just tried it solve a long-running problem of mine, and it works. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101459.27883.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 10:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 08:59:29 Brian wrote: On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. I can't prove it at the moment without more digging than I want to invest the time for, but I believe that either this is a purely cosmetic issue (i.e. it's done only for display purposes), or the spaces should and indeed must be translated back to %20 before being transmitted - exactly _because_ a URL cannot contain a space. I believe it's far more likely that the actual problem is somewhere else. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? I have looked without seeing a likely suspect. Love it! :) Why? You are using what is probably an ancient edition of a mail agent on an unknown distribution and into the bargain you're running a DE which does not have packages in Debian. I am tempted to call bs on this. The DE change was forced on me by the broken font handling in the kmail that is part of wheezy. So I am like the pollack looking for a car that works so he can get to work, and TDE does. I fussed about that font rendering in the wheezy version of kmail, right here on this list, which makes a version number like 3.3.7p1 into an unreadable mess about 3 characters wide by piling them up on top of each other, and no one had a clue, and I don't believe it has ever been fixed. Do you have a bug-report number for this? I'd be interested in looking into the history a bit more. Backing up from the .7 release to the .5 release fixed that right up. Above, you say that you're running kmail 1.13.7. Here, you say you're running the .5 release of kmail, with the implication that the .7 release is what is provided in wheezy. However, according to 'apt-cache policy' on my computer, the version of kmail in current stable (which is codenamed wheezy) is 4.4.11. That's quite a version difference. What exact version numbers are you working with, here? Trinity R14, and kmail says its version 1.9.10, this I am told is from kde3, not kde4. My apologies for the mistaken kmail ID. Why does that make me the b-a here? Copy the URL directly into iceweasel. I can do that, but wheezy's much too critical mouse placement, demanding that the pointer is on the exact pixel means I have to do it several times to stand a chance of doing it right. How are you going about doing the copying? For long links with the html quotation marks surrounding them, generally works unless there are spaces in the link, if the isn't there, then I will left click beyond end of link text to disable the automatic launching of the browser, hold click and drag to first character IF it can be found without going past the left end of the text. The thing doesn't work if the click release is 1 pixel either side of the correct point. Very difficult to successfully find. In my experience, there are two different paste buffers available in Linux, which are accessed in two different ways. One of them contains whatever text was last highlighted by the mouse, and you can paste from it by middle-clicking in an application which supports that. Which is what I am doing, but that is also difficult as that MMB press is a press on the mouse wheel, and its very difficult to do without a minute roll of the wheel putting the pasted text 2 or 5 lines above or below where its intended to go. This particular mouse did have, when it was new, a clicker in the scroll wheel, but it wears out in a week or so. At 30+ dollars a week, replacing it weekly is not an option. And it did it, miss-placing the paste, even when the wheel had a detent. The other contains whatever text you last issued an explicit Copy command on (such as by highlighting text and pressing Ctrl-C, or right-clicking on a link and selecting Copy URL), and you can paste from it by pressing Ctrl-V. I keep forgetting that. Short term memory isn't so good at my age. Highlighting the exact text you need to copy, for the middle-click paste buffer, is indeed somewhat finicky and can require what seems like pixel-perfect
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 10:56:03 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: Above, you say that you're running kmail 1.13.7. However, according to 'apt-cache policy' on my computer, the version of kmail in current stable (which is codenamed wheezy) is 4.4.11. That's quite a version difference. What exact version numbers are you working with, here? Gene is using TDE R14, a fork of KDE3, because he liked the old KDE3. KMail is the current name still of the KMail application in TDE. It is what I am using. But the current KMail is 1.9.10, which is what Gene must be using, so I am a little baffled as to where 1.13.7 comes from . Full name for use in apt kmail-trinity. I think, Lisi, that that is the version in wheezy. But as noted the fonts are broken in the message window only, so the change to TDE R14, since no one here seemed to understand what I was saying about the broken fonts, was forced on me just so I could read incoming messages without launching a reply editor. Here, you say you're running the .5 release of kmail, with the implication that the .7 release is what is provided in wheezy. This refers to KMail in KDE4, so I'll pass! Lisi Somewhere in this confusing trail of looking for something that actually worked, I recall seeing a 4.13.7 or .5 version of kmail, and it looked exactly like the 1.13.5 versions, IIRC. I haven't a clue what the real difference was. Thanks Lisi Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101929.10023.ghesk...@wdtv.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 10:59:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click Copy Link Location, switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. Thank you for that! I have just tried it solve a long-running problem of mine, and it works. Lisi +1! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101930.12359.ghesk...@wdtv.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 11:06:26 The Wanderer wrote: On 03/10/2015 at 10:31 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by the contents of said malformed address bar. So instead of fixing it so one can edit it and fix it, you have to start from scratch, redoing the whole copy/paste. Neither is exactly user friendly. This is only a problem if you're using the middle-click paste buffer. Clicking into the address bar will highlight the existing URL, and will therefore overwrite the contents of the middle-click paste buffer - but it will not affect the contents of the Ctrl-V paste buffer. I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click Copy Link Location, switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. ...but is irrelevant to the problem you're presenting, because in a new tab there is no address-bar text to be pulled into the paste buffer. However, I also sometimes right-click, Copy Link Location, hit F6 to shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. And it over writes what's there? Another great clue, thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101934.24065.ghesk...@wdtv.com
Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 11:52:13 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2015-03-10 13:36 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote: Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit board he has designed. Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20 for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces aren't allowed in a URL. This translation should not be taking place IMO. It's normally only used for display, iceweasel should still send the %20 to the server. Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option? Yes, set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false. Cheers, Sven Just did that too, thanks, Sven. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503101936.49025.ghesk...@wdtv.com
