tags 411737 wontfix thanks * Jason Spiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I should explain better. A common action in Firefox is to paste in a > URL from the X clipboard. In Windows, this is easy. Just press > Ctrl-V and paste. > > The problem is, in Linux, many people use the X clipboard. It is > frustrating to try to paste from the X clipboard into the Firefox > address bar. The bar is never empty, yet highlighting it and pressing > Delete would overwrite the clipboard. To avoid this problem, people > tend to click in the bar and hold down the Delete key until the bar is > clear. It takes a while to delete the long URLs that many web apps > (e.g. Gmail) use nowadays. > > This problem could be resolved by Recommending mozilla-diggler with > firefox. Diggler is a Mozilla/Firefox extension which adds a new > button to the Firefox toolbar. The button simply clears the toolbar. > > What do you think of my proposed solution?
While I agree with you that this behavior is annoying, it is also consistent with how text fields and the X selection buffer work. I'm not going to start recommending tiny extensions with such a limited focus. If this should be fixed in iceweasel bring it to the firefox developers. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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