When will we have a clipboard that works?

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 23:29 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
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> Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:17:06AM +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> >> I would also like to ditch the old 'X' type auto-copy of stuff when
> >> selecting things.   This is just evil, like try to paste a URL or Google
> >> search term into Firefox.. to delete whatever was in there, most people
> >> would select it and then paste.. but in selecting it, it replaces the
> >> clipboard contents.
> >>
> >> That's just nuts. 
> >
> > It is indescribably and unbelievably perverse, and the greatest bane of
> > the *nix world. (And doubtless the cause of much muttered  profanity.)
> >
> > Do we log the bug report with the mozilla guys?
> >
> > Erik
> >
> It's not a mozilla bug - it's system-wide.
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All we need is a little button beside the "GO" button in firefox that
will remove the URL already present, then one could click this button
and then middle-click-paste an address.
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