Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar

From: [KS] (lists04_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 10/31/04

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    David P James wrote:
    > On Sun 31 October 2004 13:08, [KS] wrote:
    >
    >>Hello all,
    >>
    >>I have noticed this behaviour in Firefox recently. When the cursor is
    >>in the location bar and I press "Ctrl+U" to delete the text, Firefox
    >>opens the "View Source" window. This is annoying as it changes a
    >>basic linux shortcut's functionality.
    >
    >
    > Can't say I've ever understood this particular problem since Ctrl+L does
    > essentially the same thing, and without having to select the address
    > bar first as well. Or install the Diggler extension. I also dispute
    > that this is a "basic linux shortcut" since it is in fact a vi
    > shortcut. Mozilla uses a hodgepodge of both vi and emacs shortcuts in
    > text areas in Linux.

    I thought it was a basic linux shortcut as I could use it on a terminal
    on various Linux flavours I have tired. Didn't know that it actually
    came from Emacs.

    >
    >
    >>It was working fine till 0.9.3 and the change has only happened in
    >>0.10+ versions. Mozilla suite still kills the text in location bar
    >>with Ctrl+U but Firefox has changed. Is it possible to revert back
    >>the behaviour?
    And now with this new version there is another package that I had to
    install, mozilla-firefox-gnome-support. I think why everyone suggested
    changing GNOME preferences.

    >
    >
    > See Mozilla bugs 189615 and 260188. This was changed because too many
    > bugs were being filed on the old behaviour. I agree they're useful in
    > text areas in the page itself, I'm far less convinced they're useful in
    > the url and search bars since selecting the bar itself via keyboard
    > shortcut selects the contents for overwriting.
    >
    > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189615
    > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260188
    >
    > From comment #18 of the latter:
    > <<
    > ...add the following two lines to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:
    > include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
    > gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

    Tried that. Didn't work!
    >
    >
    > You should also be able to change it from the GNOME control centre
    > somewhere (beats me where - I can't stand GNOME). What this means is
    > that Firefox now respects whatever behaviour you have set GNOME and all
    > GNOME apps to use, which in the end makes more sense.
    >
    > HTH,
    I got another way to deal with the Ctrl+U thing. from b.m.o #189615 I
    learnt that intead of "selecting url, focusing in location bar, Ctrl+U,
    mouse middle click to paste url", I could just middle click in the body
    of a tab and it will open that url. Neat.

    Thanks for all the suggestions,
    /KS 

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