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Monday, April 5, 2004

Quick Mozilla (Firefox) tip

If there's a URL on a web page that isn't a link, and you want to visit it, instead of copying and pasting the link to the location bar, you can just select it and drag and drop it onto a tab.

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04:25 (utc-4)

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Martijn wrote:

Ah! That's nice.
But I see some small problems with it.
I think it should only happen with links, not with text.
But it's great that it also happens with the search box (although I'm already used to the "search web" contextmenu search).
It displays a caret of the place where the mouse pointer is. That's kinda confusing.

∴ Martijn | 5-Apr-2004 11:21am est | #4296

Or you can drop it on the space to the right of the rightmost tab, to open it in a new tab.

∴ Phil Ringnalda | 5-Apr-2004 5:20pm est | http://philringnalda.com | #4302

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