When will we have a clipboard that works?

Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV rick at rickandpatty.com
Thu Nov 23 02:08:55 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 12:27 +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Nope, sounds great! Maybe it's because I have firefox 1.0.7, that
> nothing happens even if I repeatedly whack the "middle" mouse button,
> with the cursor over the page, and a url loaded. I tried a firefox
> upgrade, but newer versions don't seem to have been back-ported to
> Breezy. (It'd be worth spending a minute to build from source, for this
> functionality, though, if that's what's required. :)

If you're on Breezy, the latest Firefox available is Firefox 1.5.0.7 .

Like another poster suggested, go to about:config and look for 

middlemouse.contentLoadURL

Change it to "true"

NOW paste your URL into the browser window with middle-click.

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