On 2022-06-28 at 16:53, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/28/22 09:47, peter@easthope.ca wrote: > >> I'm interested in two details of firefox-esr behaviour. >> >> (1) The usual result of a click of the mouse pointer in a >> graphical text editor is a setting of the insertion point. >> Dragging the pointer selects an extent. >> >> A click of the pointer in the address bar of firefox selects the >> complete URL. Does anyone have a simple configuration so that a >> click sets the insertion point without selecting? >> >> Dragging selects as in an editor? >> >> (2) Is there a simple configuration so that the "Find in page" bar >> is always present at the bottom of the window? Present when >> firefox opens and remaining present until quiting. >> >> Thx, ... P.L. > > A dbl-click turns the address bar into editable. But it passes through a state of "contents of the address bar selected" along the way... ...which, unless even *more* rules of how the system should behave are somehow being bypassed, means that the contents of the address bar get copied into the X clipboard, replacing whatever was already there. That's the biggest reason why I consider this described behavior a problem in the Linux environment - and is also the point on which I'd expect to lean if I were to report this as a bug in hopes of getting it fixed, probably by getting the config option added back. I don't particularly expect to go to the trouble of making that effort any time soon, however. -- 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
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