[ale] Please help Drew fix his browser problem

[Jason Day]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:00:20PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:20:58AM -0500, ChangingLINKS.com spake thus:
> [...] 
> > *******************************************************************************************************************
> > CUT AND PASTE PROBLEM: IF you update the browser, please make sure that "cut 
> > and paste" still works the same way it does now. Right now, I can highlight 
> > the text, and then use the center wheel button to paste the highlighted text 
> > into a form field in the browser. One time, when I updated to Firefox 1.0, 
> > this cut and paste feature no longer worked.

I've never seen this behavior before, but I don't run KDE or Gnome, so
it might be a window manager thing.  Or it might just be the way Debian
is packaging firefox.  You could try downloading the binaries from
mozilla.org instead of using the Debian package.  If you try this, I
would also recommend renaming the .mozilla directory, both to act as a
backup and to prevent any conflicts with settings for the newer version.

> [...]
> If you were previously getting X-style select and paste, that may have been 
> a function of the underlying libraries that were present.  I run Firefox on 
> Gnome, and the cut and paste functionality has been of the CUA variety for 
> some time for me.  I don't think you will be able to influence that in much 
> of a healthy way.
> 
> > *******************************************************************************************************************
> > AUTOMATIC WEBSITE LOADING PROBLEM: Sometimes I highlight some text TRY TO use 
> > the wheel to paste it in a browser form but, I MISS THE FORM. When that 
> > happens, Firefox automatically loads the new web page as though I wanted to 
> > surf to the URL that I was pasting. Please disable that feature. I never want 
> > to browse to another page by pasting a URL into an existing web page.

Personally, I find this feature indispensable, but to each his own.
This works for firefox 1.0.x, not sure about 0.9.x though: Type
"about:config" in the URL bar and hit return.  In the Filter: text
field, type "middle" and wait a moment for the filter to take affect.
Double-click the line "middleMouse.contentLoadURL".  The value should
change from true to false.

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