one hundred yen lite

Re: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3

nevyn:

I agree with everything that Gruber writes about in his latest article. A friend of mine went majorly goddamned-mac-zealot on me and his article (had to explain not once but *twice* that Gruber wasn’t saying “FF should be exactly as Safari” but “Safari beats the Mac port of FF on a number of points” :P) All is well and good though, as he found a fix for the most annoying UI element of FF3 for me: single-click-selects-entire-URL. I almost screamed from frustration from just trying to edit the URL a few days ago. Here’s how to fix it, though:

1. Go to about:config (type it in the location bar and type enter)
2. Filter on “clickSelects”
3. Double-click on the row that says “browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll” to set it to false.

Now when you single-click in a Firefox location bar, it’ll place the caret in it; double click will select word; and triple-click will select the whole line, just like in a Mac app.

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That is so much better…It’s how I’d expect it to behave, so thanks for the tip :)