Post #751780
2026-01-11 18:23 UTC
Replies (30)
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@Dubikan@tooot.im 2026-01-13 12:52
@kubofhromoslav me too, though depending on browser, you can also right click and get an option to select link text.
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@Luckluster@tooot.im 2026-01-13 10:15
@aharoni @jhsoby It doesn't always work...
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@Kingu@sakurajima.moe 2026-01-13 19:11
@aharoni @jhsoby Holy cow!!
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@tauon@possum.city 2026-01-13 19:14
@aharoni@wikis.world @jhsoby@wikis.world i don't know when i learned this but it's so important this should be basic knowledge about browsing the web imo
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@jasonkarns@indieweb.social 2026-01-13 19:21
@aharoni @jhsoby which OS!?
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@simulo@hci.social 2026-01-13 19:32
@aharoni @jhsoby Also useful: typing ' will bring up a search field that only searches links. Very useful for navigating without mouse use.
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@gcolpart@mastodon.evolix.org 2026-01-13 19:38
@aharoni @jhsoby in which browser? On Firefox/XFCE it doesn't seem to work :/
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@sgarrity@mastodon.social 2026-01-13 20:20
@aharoni @jhsoby OH MY GOD
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@glc@mastodon.online 2026-01-13 22:34
@aharoni @jhsoby On the other hand, it's possible you've known the capital of Maine for the last 35 or so. We learned them all but we started with Maine, so that will probably be the last one I forget. I believe it's on a river that I knew the trisyllabic name of as well - but I will refrain from checking. We didn't learn much about web browsers though. Or even about the telephone switching network. Which, in the 1950s, might have been more plausible.
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@davecandoit@aus.social 2026-01-14 00:00
@aharoni @jhsoby On a mac it's command c
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@alter_kaker@hachyderm.io 2026-01-14 00:03
@aharoni WHAT
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@ruxotves@hed.im 2026-01-14 00:07
@aharoni @jhsoby OMFG this is amazing!! 😮 Tit for tat: Here’s another tip that has to do with selecting in the browser. If you select some text you can link to it by right clicking or pressing the ≣ Menu key and then choosing ‘Copy Link to Highlight’ (in LibreWolf/Firefox). It creates a text fragment link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment#Proposals; or should I say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment#:~:text=Text%20Fragments 🙃).
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@chozari@aus.social 2026-01-14 06:58
@aharoni I too am 45 and did not know this. But I avoid my laptop like the plague, so… @jhsoby
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@Abazigal@mastodon.social 2026-01-14 07:55
@aharoni Hmm, I always just move my cursor a little in front of the link and highlight it from there?
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@benoitb@framapiaf.org 2026-01-14 08:22
@aharoni @jhsoby O.M.G.! Same here, but replace forty-five-year-old man with fifty-seven-year-old man and using web browsers for twenty-eight years with twenty-nine years. This is amazing (as we age, we have simpler joys). Thank you very (very) much for that tip!
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@Loosf@yiff.life 2026-01-15 17:57
@aharoni @jhsoby TIL thank you for this.
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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange 2026-01-15 18:04
@aharoni @jhsoby Interesting, I've been using Select like a Boss extension, which replicates the old Opera behaviour.
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@wollman@mastodon.social 2026-01-15 18:16
@aharoni I can't do that, because alt+click combinations are reserved by my window manager.
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@kura@hai.z0ne.social 2026-01-15 18:19
@jhsoby@wikis.world @aharoni@wikis.world (in Firefox at least) you can hold shift and right click to force open the native conext menu,for websites that add their own context menu .
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@Mutedog@mastodon.social 2026-01-15 19:00
@aharoni @jhsoby I've only worked as a web developer for ~27 years so it makes sense that I wouldn't know about this...
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@stonebear2@hachyderm.io 2026-01-15 23:22
@aharoni Daaaaaaaayum. I'm fifty-mumble, and I didn't know that either. Now I do. @jhsoby Thank you, kind ser.
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@otto42@mastodon.social 2026-01-16 00:10
@aharoni @jhsoby ummm . Why exactly would you need to hilite texts as a hyperlink? What is the use case for this practice? Your solution may indeed work, but I don't understand the reason for it.
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@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-01-16 01:23
@aharoni wait, wut?! 🤯 I've just always started dragging before the link, then drag over the entire link and clean up any leading garbage when I paste it. Appears to work for that annoying Salesforce tab containing the case-number that I need to copy/paste, but clicking on it activates the link. 😌 @jhsoby
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@RyeNCode@mstdn.ca 2026-01-16 01:44
@aharoni @jhsoby as others have mentioned, your mileage may vary... Well behaving websites won't need with this, many others do though. I'm finding myself more and more needing to utilize the dev console to effectively use many sites these days. From removing hard-sell overlays to subscribe or disable my (network wide) ad blocker, to just trying to select some text to copy and paste, it has become a unavailable tool.
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@carlt4@hachyderm.io 2026-01-16 02:01
@aharoni @jhsoby OMG I've got 13 years on you and *thank you very much* <3
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@lipservant@aus.social 2026-01-16 07:46
@aharoni @jhsoby I was this days old when.
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@phl@mastodon.social 2026-01-16 09:47
@aharoni @jhsoby I'll add another Firefox (Gecko) trick: Have you noticed that if you're looking at a and you Ctrl-click a cell it gets a little border? Well, Gecko allows you to select cells of a HTML table and e.g. copy them to the clipboard — selectively, not merely the complete flow of text as with a normal click and drag select.
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@elfi@social.pixie.town 2026-01-16 15:59
@aharoni @jhsoby So many of these fun tricks left under-documented or forgotten... thanks for spreading the word on this one!
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@tinsuke@mas.to 2026-01-17 06:28
@aharoni @jhsoby #TIL
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@deobald@fantastic.earth 2026-05-22 17:40
@aharoni@wikis.world @jhsoby@wikis.world wtaf how did i not know this is it because i'm forty-four