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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

chromium url bar annoyance

a few versions back (don't know which one. i never keep track), when i'd click in the url bar, the whole address would be selected/highlighted and i could just begin typing my next search/address. whatever version i'm using now doesn't do that. now, i have to highlight it myself, or right-click and select 'clear'. can any of you all point me in the right direction for getting this the way i want? (i've looked at all the config files and couldn't find anything obvious to an end user like me.)

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

Yeah I liked that as well, not sure if single click will be re-enabled ,  Ctrl+L does do the same thing however.

Last edited by rusty99 (2009-12-09 14:55:29)

failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

click three times pretty fast and it gets highlighted atleast for me

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

click three times pretty fast and it gets highlighted atleast for me

that's worth the carpal tunnel fallout. ctrl+l is also good. thanks, you guys.

Dead Code

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Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 227

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

ctrl+l , alt+d and F6 are the keyboard shortcuts. wonder why there are 3

quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 497

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Re: chromium url bar annoyance

ctrl + l -->> the firefox search bar (on the upper right)
f6 -> the same on many browsers and filemanagers
alt+d --> hmm... HEY !! A NEW FEATURE !!!

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falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: chromium url bar annoyance

ctrl + l -->> the firefox search bar (on the upper right)
f6 -> the same on many browsers and filemanagers
alt+d --> hmm... HEY !! A NEW FEATURE !!!

alt+d exists in firefox and IE. You can also use ctrl+k (as in firefox) to search. It wipes out the entire URL bar and replaces it with a ?

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barzam

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 277

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

Do you guys know of any list listing all those? Ctrl+k was pretty handy!

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

B.t.w. with Firefox you can change this behaviour of the urlbar with 

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll true

in about:config .

Last edited by rwd (2009-12-12 21:40:02)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

Firefox by default has doubleClickSelectsAll set to true. So I always use that if I am moving away from the page and a single click, if I need to simply modify the existing url.

I tried double click in chromium, but that only selects the immediate word that your cursor is on. :-(

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nstoyanov

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Registered: 2009-04-24

Posts: 26

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

B.t.w. with Firefox you can change this behaviour of the urlbar with 

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll true

in about:config .

Thanks for this!

rransom

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Registered: 2010-04-26

Posts: 92

Re: chromium url bar annoyance

Do you guys know of any list listing all those? Ctrl+k was pretty handy!

For Chromium, the following link popped up at the bottom of my 'New Tab' page yesterday: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bi … 43&ctx=tip