Some usability ideas for Ubuntu

[Matthew R. Dempsky]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:09:03AM +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> FYI, there is a special text-only cut&paste feature of the X Window 
> System where merely selecting text makes it available for pasting via a 
> click of the middle mouse button. If you select an URL, and you want to 
> paste it into the address bar, selecting the address that's already 
> there so you could delete it would wipe out your previous selection - so 
> you'd paste the old address back in. By clicking the favicon with the 
> middle mouse button, it will replace the address with the new url and go 
> there. Very speedy.

You don't even have to click the favicon.  Just middle click almost 
anywhere in Firefox, and it will automatically enter the middle-paste 
text into the address bar.