When I was using Linux mint in all versions one LMB click in the test in the url bar would highlight it, it even works in windoze if you do not click it more then once. How can I get this behavior in Suse 12.3 KDE?
On 2013-10-24 23:46, rdonnelly2001 wrote:
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> When I was using Linux mint in all versions one LMB click in the test in
> the url bar would highlight it, it even works in windoze if you do not
> click it more then once. How can I get this behavior in Suse 12.3 KDE?
I have not tried KDE, but here it is 2 clicks.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
I’m assuming this is about Firefox? This was the default behavior until recently. Not sure where the change came from. To set it back, type
about:config
in the address bar, and set “browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll” to True.
Like chief-sealth, I guess this is about Firefox.
Please do not let people guess about those things. Do not use generic terms like “browser”, but specify which one of the very many possibilities, not forgetting the version.
Actually I use Chromium, and if I click enough like the other posters say, it will highlight all text.
I will have to try clickselectsall in the chromium config.
FF always crashes the system with flash enabled, I would use it if it did not crash me to the point pressing the power button.
BTW, the single click worked in all the browsers under mint, not just Firefox.
just found out Ctrl-L makes it real easy. 
rdonnelly2001 wrote:
> FF always crashes the system with flash enabled, I would use it if it
> did not crash me to the point pressing the power button.
>
I’ve been seeing that with FF 23 (12.3) and 24 (13.1). Crashes when opening
or loading pages with Flash content - some of the time, not always. The FF
recovery process has yet to crash reloading the same set of pages. I
haven’t seen it crash since the last FF update (24.0-1.33.1 for 12.3
x86_64).
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Will Honea
are two clicks really that much more difficult than one?
surely using Ctrl-L is more troublesome than a double click??
My experience is that using the mouse vs the keyborad and vv is a very personal preference thus saying that using Crtl-L (and learning that combination and what it does) is not to my liking also is very personal.
But being confronted by a (IMHO completely superfluous) double click on a place where it never was before (and in a DE that does not use that MS Windows invented “feature”) is frustrating to say the least. Changing defaults in a product is one of the wordt things you can do to your users IMHO.
rdonnelly2001 wrote:
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> Actually I use Chromium, and if I click enough like the other posters
> say, it will highlight all text.
>
> I will have to try clickselectsall in the chromium config.
>
> FF always crashes the system with flash enabled, I would use it if it
> did not crash me to the point pressing the power button.
>
>
Gecko has served me well for many many years now. No crashes with flash
and stuff.
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GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
Firefox has been pretty reliable for me. I can’t remember when it last crashed, but it was several years ago.
Admittedly, I do use “flashblock”. But, even with “flashblock” disabled, I don’t have crashes.
By contrast, both “konqueror” and “rekonq” are very prone to crash on flash.
When I have trouble with konqueror crashing, I take that url to an instance of “firefox” without “flashblock”. And it seems to be fine, and quite stable.
Currently using “konqueror” for RSS stuff, via “akregator”, but “firefox” for most regular browsing and “chromium” for “gmail”. I use several browsers to give the commercial world a harder time with tracking me online.
On 2013-10-26 09:36, hcvv wrote:
> But being confronted by a (IMHO completely superfluous) double click on
> a place where it never was before (and in a DE that does not use that MS
> Windows invented “feature”) is frustrating to say the least. Changing
> defaults in a product is one of the wordt things you can do to your
> users IMHO.
I prefer double click to select the entire line, and single click to
select just a part of the link. It frustrates me not to be able to
select just a part of the link to edit or whatever.
It is consistent with singl, double and triple click on a terminal.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Thank you for “fixing” this for me. it was a constant irritation but I was just too lazy to try and figure it out.