{"id":676,"date":"2014-08-20T21:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-08-20T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:53:28","slug":"firefox-ctrlbackspace-behavior-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2014\/08\/20\/firefox-ctrlbackspace-behavior-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox ctrl+backspace behavior on linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always hated why ctrl+backspace wouldn&#8217;t do what I expected in the address bar of Mozilla Firefox. So I stopped using Firefox. However, one day I tried it by accident on a windows box and was astonished it <em>did<\/em> work as expected! I didn&#8217;t care that much anymore since my main browser became Google Chrome. However, Chrome became more and more of a resource hog and even their owns sites like gmail and google drive run slower than on firefox. I started using Firefox again and got annoyed again over this small nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>So I started googling the issue and found out that, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=190615\">apparently<\/a>, linux users want non standard behavior because they are used to different selection behavior than for example a windows user.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that double clicking a path in a console should select the entire path but I don&#8217;t see why that should affect the ctrl+backspace behavior. If I press ctrl+backspace in KWrite, it deletes the last word. If I press ctrl+backspace in the address bar in Dolphin, it will delete the last part in the path. The list goes on.. but I will never expect ctrl+backspace to be equal to &#8220;select all and press delete&#8221; which it does by default on Firefox\/Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, it turns out there&#8217;s an option <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation\">layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation<\/a> to configure this behavior \ud83d\ude42 You might also be interested in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word\">layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always hated why ctrl+backspace wouldn&#8217;t do what I expected in the address bar of Mozilla Firefox. So I stopped using Firefox. However, one day I tried it by accident on a windows box and was astonished it did work as expected! I didn&#8217;t care that much anymore since my main browser became Google Chrome. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2014\/08\/20\/firefox-ctrlbackspace-behavior-on-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox ctrl+backspace behavior on linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tweaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}