Comments on: Idea: Linker.app

By: spence

spence — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:03:24 +0000

ubiquity’s got this command

http://gibberish.com/hacks/ubiq/lazylink.html

cheers

By: Abi Raja

Abi Raja — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:34:32 +0000

Yep, typical users don’t comment to affirm that they don’t in fact use the “Copy Link Location” context menu item. ;)

By: Tony Mechelynck

Tony Mechelynck — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:01:47 +0000

I don’t know why you «don’t think a lot of people know or use the context menu to “Copy Link Location”, they would rather click through to the page and then, copy the URL.» The “Copy Link Location” context menu item is something I use constantly, even if at times I also copy a URL from the Location Bar. But then, maybe I’m not your “typical user” either: for one thing, one of the first things I do with a new piece of software is look what menus and preferences are available; for another, after trying IE, NS6/7, Firefox, Opera and Konqueror (not to mention Lynx), I’ve settled on SeaMonkey 2 as my favourite browser, which apparently is not everyone’s choice… :-)

By: Abi Raja

Abi Raja — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:09:58 +0000

Mardeg, I think with a bit of habituation the steps I describe will probably take less time than the drag-drop route which requires you to pause for about half a second every single time you hold the text over a tab. And I find drag+drop for extended periods to be quite clumsy. But that's definitely a alternative to clicking link, selecting location bar, ctrl+c'ing and pasting it again.

By: Mardeg

Mardeg — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:12:51 +0000

2) Drag the page result to this tab and when it opens keep dragging it to the textfield.

I guess this wouldn't work if the idiotic javascript "link window" can't be skipped.