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Cake day: May 29th, 2024

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  • yup. either works. also clicking a second time puts the text input cursor at the site of the last click. click fast enough for a ‘double click’ will select the word or whatever windows thinks is a ‘word’ nearest to the double click.

    also F6 or CTRL-L will put the focus up there without having to click. saving the mouse from making the (potentially long) journey there. then END or RIGHT puts the mouse at the end of the address. a programmable keyboard or utility, or autohotkey, could be used to make a new custom shortcut that hits those two keys with one keypress or alternate mouse button click.

    the reason for the default behaviour is because the most common (and overwhelmingly so) things people do when they click or give focus to the urlbar is either copy its contents to the clipboard, or replace it entirely by pasting or immediately typing. these things require the entire url address to be selected upon focus.





  • if google cared, they’d vet ads and ad links, and guarantee their safety and security.

    if google cared, they’d put a stop to seo ‘optimizers’ and scammers scoring top positions on serps.

    but google doesn’t care about anything other than their profits and share price.

    adblockers can affect both of those. they’re using the weak cover of ‘security’ enhancement to neuter them.

    existing adblockers provide more safety and security than what can be realized by the shift to mv3.



  • i did read somewhere that affected chrome users are being presented with alternatives from the chrome extension ‘store’ that are mv3-ready.

    whether or not they’re capable of clicking the right buttons on the right screens and windows to do it is another story.

    ubo, abp and adguard all have mv3 variants. there are others, but i think those are the ‘big three’. ublock origin lite is what i’ve been moving people to here, if not to firefox. so far, so good.