Praising Opera 9

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/07/06, Alf-Ivar Holm <alfh at student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
>> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > 4) Middle clicking a page tried to open whatever text I have in the
>> >    clipboard as a URL.
>>
>> A feature that was introduced in Netscape, unless Mosaic also had it.
>> To paste with middle/2nd button is very X-ish, and stems from the days
>> when (X) windows environments didn't try to emulate MS Windows - 'cause
>> there were no MS Windows.  :-)
>
> Yes, I like to paste with the middle mouse button. That's not what I'm
> talking about.
>
> If I have the text "I love cookies" in the clipboard and I middle
> click in the middle of a page (not on a link), then Opera tries to
> open the page "http://I love cookies". 

The idea is that you would do this for URIs, not arbitrary text¹.
E.g. you have somehow managed to get an URL to the X clipboard and
instead of removing the text in the address bar, you just 2nd-click
somewhere in the browser area.  The added functionality of terminals,
e.g. gnome-terminal, to parse URIs and make them clickable has made
this feature less necessary, but when you get used to it, it would be
annoying if it was removed.  Even though I mostly use Ctrl-B (Ctrl-D
in older Operas) to get the same functionality these days.

> If I do the same in Firefox, I am presented with the quick-scroll
> button, that lets me scroll me moving the mouse up and down.

In my Firefox, nothing happens, even though my mouse is stuffed with
buttons and wheels.  And why would I want to, I have a plethora of
ways to get that functionality from the keyboard, or by the use of the
mouse wheel thingy?

	Affi

¹) Well, of course, the browser could detect that the pasted text was
not a URI and do some other action, e.g. search with your default
search engine, which (to bring this discussion back to Ubuntu) in
Opera 9 can be set to the search field of Launchpad.