Firefox with cut/paste URLs

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.nl
Wed Jul 6 23:52:23 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:48, Daryl Sayers wrote:
> want but I am having problems with Firefox. On all my other systems I
> am able to cut a URL from a text window using mouse button 1 (select) then
> go to the main display area of Firefox and paste the URL using mouse
> button 2 (3 button mouse). This does not work in the kubuntu environment.

I'm "heavily relying" on the same behaviour.

> . Is this a kdm or Firefox issue.

Bad default setting of Firefox, I'd say. Anyone care to fix it? The solution 
is nowhere near intuitive.

> . How do I fix it.

Open Firefoxes "about:config" and set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to True.

Cheers,
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sebas

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