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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    1 year ago

    Huh? Firefox does this though. Highlight an address and right click then select open in new tab or whatever.

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      That doesn’t work in many cases, like the example in the screenshot.

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        IP adresses are pretty edge case yeah. I dont know if that should even be supported. The “example.com” does actually work tho, its just if you only include “.co” in your selection, it doesn’t recognize it as a URL even tho .co is the national TLD of Colombia. But all that really needs to change is to support all existing TLD’S and maybe IP addresses if there is community interest in it.

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      I ran into this not long after seeing this post. This site disables links and the options aren’t there. I find the context menu is pretty strange in general. But the problems it causes are small and easy to move on from so it’s never really questioned. It honestly seems to have a mind of it’s own sometimes. Not nearly as bad as the windows explorer context menu though.

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    You didn’t highlight the entire URL?..

    Firefox already has this feature lol.

    At the bare minimum, just drag the URL to the top bar.

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    the first option when you right click a text vaguely resembling a link is “open link in new tab” or something like that. Its the same thing as go to [url]

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t let everyone “well actually” you, here. The fact you are making this robust is great.

    Feature idea: holding down Alt/Option changes the menu to open in a new tab.

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      ‘New Tab’ is the default/only behavior currently.

      I notice that Chrome supports Ctrl-click (background tab) and Shift-click (new window), and Firefox provides a modifiers array, so I think I could replicate this.

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        Oh, sounds good. It would be best to follow similar conventions. I’m a Safari person, so I didn’t know New Tab was default in Firefox. Making the menu say it will be a new tab would be good.

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          I’ve added support for Ctrl/Command/Shift in v1.7, but the menu text is unchanged because I don’t know which keys are pressed prior to the click event. This matches Chrome’s behavior.

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    Maybe it is more visible that way, but the same can be done clicking on open link or open in private window.

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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.

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        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.

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    1 year ago

    Use double click to highlight instead of single click to select words instead of characters.

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    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.