Tip of the Day: Pasting wrapped URLs in Firefox
This must be on everybody’s pet peeve list: Somebody e-mails you a URL, but it’s long (it seems they all are these days) and wraps in your e-mail client, so when you click to open it you only get the first line, which is completely useless. In 2005, you’d think that most e-mail clients would be smart enough to get this right, but many of them don’t. For Firefox users, thankfully, there’s a fix on the browser side, but for some reason it’s not enabled by default nor available on any screen in Preferences. As the power users reading have probably already guessed, it’s in about:config.
The trick is this: type about:config into your address back and hit enter. After boggling at all the arcane options now available to you, find editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines (use the Filter box at the top to skip to it quickly). Double-click on it and change the value to 3. That’s it!
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I also hate it when people forget to properly close an anchor tag in blog posts and it totally messes up the page display 😉
argh – i’ve been doing too much of that recently. This time it was me trying out the “blog this” feature in a newsreader. I obviously got something a bit wrong.
Sorry!
LOL 🙂 . Just thought it was slightly ironic considering the subject of the post.