Some usability ideas for Ubuntu

Sven Wagschal s.wagschal at bengelhaus.de
Fri Mar 17 07:46:45 UTC 2006


Michael T. Richter schrieb:
>> If you move over the icon, you get the hand icon.  Then left click. 
>> That should select the URL in the address bar.  It works for me using
>> Firefox in Breezy.
> 
> It does nothing of the sort for me.  Using Firefox.  In Breezy.  I can 
> drag and drop the URL, but there's nothing selected.  I have to resort 
> to "click in address bar, hit ^A and type" to change the URL there.  
> Which is a serious annoyance.


No need to click in the adress bar. Hit Control-L, this will move the 
cursor to the adress bar and select all, Control-V to paste something or 
simply type a new adress to replace the old one. These two steps will 
work on all platforms and even in most browsers.

Regards,

S. Wagschal




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