Firefox Addressbar Select-on-click
In Windows, clicking on the addressbar in Firefox selects the existing URL so you can type to replace or paste to replace.
In FreeBSD, clicking on the addressbar doesn’t do that. However, when you manually select the URL so you can replace it, it overwrites the contents of your clipboard and makes it so much harder to paste the URL you were about to look at.
Luckily, you can fix this :) Browse to about:config and stick urlbar in the filter box. Find the browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll setting and change it (by double-clicking) to true.
To paste, you’ll probably have best success with Ctrl-V as middlemouse seems to paste the clipboard without overwriting the previous contents.
May
2007
14:16
I’d not noticed this half as much as the irritation by which Firefox (Iceweasel in Debian…) uses a separate copy/paste buffer to the rest of X. I’m sure there is some sane and rational explanation which means that using middle-button paste gives a completely different result to ^V, but it makes no sense to me :P
May
2007
19:38
Yeah, although the effect of that is less pronounced in KDE because the Klipper system tray thing (which pops up menus based on what you just selected) also synchronises all the various clipboards/selections.