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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      1 year ago

      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)

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      1 year ago

      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.