Re:Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.
by cturner on Sunday April 22, 2012 @09:53AM
(#3874818)
Firefox is an interesting example, because on little things it behaves differently in windows to linux. For example - double click the address bar in Windows - highlights a token. Do it in linux, highlights the whole link.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.
by ditoa on Sunday April 22, 2012 @01:09PM
(#3875385)
Yeah Fx is annoying with its inconsistent defaults between platforms. The one you mention is because browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll is set to true on Windows but False on Linux. Why I have no idea!
Re:Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.
by onli on Sunday April 22, 2012 @04:12PM
(#3875927)
I can't know for sure that it is intended because of this, but it is a good default for linux because of the way copy & paste works. Not to select the whole link enables you to copy something by selecting it, change the url, go to that page and insert the prior copied text with the middle mouse button. The windows-setting is wrong in that context, disabling that workflow, even though it's inconsistent between platforms. Sometimes that's a good thing.