After using Chrome for a decade and switching back to Firefox, one feature I missed was the ability to right-click and Go to [url] directly, for any selected text that vaguely resembles a URL.
I made Goto foo to approximately replicate Chrome’s behavior in Firefox, but it would be nice if no extension were necessary.
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Netscape, then Mozilla, then Firefox had this feature on middle-button-click for literally decades. Firefox devs killed it years ago, despite howls of protest.
You could literally highlight any text, anywhere, and a middle-click in the browser window would navigate there. It was awesome. Basically a web equivalent of X-windows’ middle-click paste feature.
You can enable it in about:config
No you can’t. The code was changed years ago to only work if the text in the PRIMARY buffer “sort of looks like it might be a URL”.
That defeats the whole point of the feature. If someone has written “go to example.domain, it’s amazing”, without bothering to make “example.domain” a link anchor, or even prepending “https://”, then there’s no easy way to actually visit the site. Previously, I could just select the text I wanted, middle-click into a browser window, and hey presto. Doesn’t work any more.
Nice!
I agree with you 100% and highlighting text and choosing the new tab option isn’t always viable. I often have to copy text from outside the browser and paste it into the address bar, I really miss that feature of Chrome.
Edit: why the down votes? He makes a fair point that some of you are disagreeing with without considering that there are those out there that use their browsers differently than yourself. Even if I used Firefox as my primary browser for the last 3 years I’m still able to be honest about my experience.
Maybe it is more visible that way, but the same can be done clicking on open link or open in private window.
Firefox’s ‘Open Link’ feature is quite limited compared to Chrome. For example, try navigating to lemmy.ml using the “Firefox@lemmy.ml” link in the sidebar.
Even in cases where it works, it doesn’t preview the link target in the context menu.
Huh? Firefox does this though. Highlight an address and right click then select open in new tab or whatever.
That doesn’t work in many cases, like the example in the screenshot.
I highlight the URL text, then drag it to my tab bar to open it. That could be an option if the workflow is not too annoying to use.
Interesting, that does appear to solve the same problem.
In my decades of using web browsers, I can’t say that I’ve ever tried dragging text to the address bar. That’s not very discoverable, and the drag action messes with the page’s scroll position.
I do the same
Another option i’m aware of is CTRL+C, T, V and enter (Keyboard combo to Copy, open new tab, paste, go)
Highlight it and drag it up to the tabs bar. It’ll open in a new tab. Or drag it onto an existing tab and it’ll open in that tab. Highlight any arbitrary text, do the same, and it’ll search that text in your default search engine.
