Firefox and those pesky long URL's
Have you ever had somebody send you a URL to a web site, only it's so long that the mail system has broken it into several lines? I see these on mailing lists all the time -- always followed by a barrage of followups. "I tried to click on it but I just got a Not Found page!" "It didn't work for me either." "Oh, sorry -- here, I'm trying again." "No, still doesn't work." "Why don't you use TinyURL for it?" I see that happen all the time -- particularly on mailing lists full of Apple Mail and Outlook users, the two mailers most notorious for breaking long URLs. It always makes me laugh -- as a Firefox user, I'm immune to this problem. Even if a URL spans three or four lines, it's no problem in Firefox
Read on....find out how!
LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Why Firefox Rocks: Great Firefox Tricks, Part IV - The Plague of Ridiculously Long URLs
Read on....find out how!
LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Why Firefox Rocks: Great Firefox Tricks, Part IV - The Plague of Ridiculously Long URLs
2 comments:
how many people have a mouse with three buttons? The drag to tab works fine though
Good point! I wonder if the scroll wheel button counts?
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