The "Wait, Google Sent Me!" extension is awesome for this- you just have to click a button in Chrome and it'll reload the page with the appropriate referrers.

Although Google took it out of the Chrome store it's still up on Github[1]. All you have to do is download the zip file, change the extension to "crx", and then install.

[1] https://github.com/lakario/wait-google-sent-me

Firefox's Paywall-Pass

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/

Nice... I've always assumed that that's just the title link, in a different form.

Feature suggestion: change the text to 'search' instead of 'web'.

Yeah I always assumed it was just a duplicate of the title due to its nondescript appearance. Changing it to 'search' or something similar would be much better.

"google" might be more specific, since "search" can imply searching locally on HN.

But what if they move to bing!? :)

Yeah "google" may be good since the intent is to get around pay walls. That or some sort of phrase like "search url" or something less awkward that I apparently can't think of.

In Chrome, you can also drag-select any text, right-click and select "Search Google for ..."

In Linux distros and many other Unix-like operating systems, any text highlighted anywhere is copied straight to the clipboard the moment it has been highlighted, always. You then paste with a simple click of the middle-mouse button (which nowadays usually means the scrollwheel of your mouse). It's an excellent feature.

Firefox and Chrome, unfortunately, when doing auto-complete in the address bar, highlight the auto-completed part, overwriting your clipboard. This becomes a problem when you copy something and then open a new tab and begin to type out the URL of the site where you intended to use the copied string.

My way of dealing with this problem has been to add shortcuts on the new tab page to the sites where I frequently want to use copied content; archive.is, reddit and HN as well as a few others. That way I can at least navigate to those sites without touching the address bar.

One could of course turn off auto-complete in the browsers but aside from the situation mentioned above, auto-complete is such a useful feature.

I wish the browsers could find another way of implementing the auto-complete, not overwriting clipboard, but still retaining easy removal of the auto-completed part of the string.

Also, while we're on the subject of browsers and text highlight, I wish the drag-and-drop-ability of links from the webpage could be turned off by the user. Sometimes I want to start highlighting in the middle of a hyperlinked text. I never want to drag the link anywhere. I still like being able to drop files into the browser, though -- either to open them in the browser or to drop them onto an upload area of a page.

Or drag-select text to the New Tab button. It will open a new tab and search your selected text (unless it's an URL, in which case it will open it).

On Linux you can also just select text and middle click on New Tab button.

Works for Firefox as well. Great tip.

wow, I just noticed that, shows how carefully I've been paying attention!

It was only added in September[1], if that makes you feel any better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

This doesn’t work in Germany.

What works in Germany, though, is pressing "share via email" and using that link.

In chrome you can go to the address bar, add a "?" before the http and hit enter, and click the first link in the search results for the full article.

For those having a hard time finding the "web" link (like me), you need to be logged in to see it.

I can't remember why we did it that way, so let's try removing the restriction.

Just don't lose sight of Chesterton's fence.