Clearing the URL line in Firefox

John Austin ja at jaa.org.uk
Fri Apr 22 19:19:03 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Friday, Apr 22nd 2005 at 11:55 -0600, quoth clemens at dwf.com:
> 
> =>In previous versions of Mozilla, you could clear the URL
> =>by moving the cursor to the URL in the Navigation line,
> =>and they typing <ctl>U .  Anywhere else the <ctl>U brought
> =>up the source for the window it was in.
> =>
> =>With Firefox, this no longer works.
> =>Is there a way to configure FireFox so it works again
> =>(hint, it would be a REAL NICE feature to have back in the code)
> =>
> =>Its a real pain in the ass, with LONNNNG URLs to have to backup
> =>move the cursor to the end, backup again, and again, and again.
> =>A simple ^U could do it all at once...
> 
> I went through this when I upgraded from Shrike to Core 3. What I really 
> wanted was the old emacs behaviour.
> 
> Here's the solution:
> 
> 568 > cat .gtkrc
> include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
> 569 > cat .gtkrc-2.0 
> include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
> 570 > 
> 
> -- 
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> 

Brilliant !!!!
All these months 
John




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