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If you're interested, it can also be changed in Vivaldi.
Just type "vivaldi://settings/addressbar" in the address bar, and uncheck "Select Address on Activation", under "Address Field Options". I strongly suggest you enable "Show Full Address" by right-clicking the address bar, otherwise it will shift the text and you will have no control over where the cursor lands.
The only other browser I use, besides these 2, is Brave, and I have not been able to find a way to fix this for it.
I use LibreWolf instead of Firefox, so it didn't work the first time, as it could not find a Firefox directory, evidently.
I just opened the script with Gedit, Ctrl H to replace all "Firefox" to "LibreWolf", and it worked like a charm.
We can finally be happy.
I don't think "surprise" means what you think it means 🤣🤣
Awesome. I didn't think to look for a script. Very smart of you. I'll take it for a spin, and if will try on LibreWolf as well.
Absolutely agree with you. I went over some, not all, of the "hidden settings" yesterday, and found nothing. I'll keep on looking though, and if I find anything, I'll certainly let you know.
Correction, corporate greed spiraled out of control long ago. It's just that more and more of us can see it as time passes.
I figured this out about 7 years ago. I used to do drugs when I was younger (thank God for getting me off that train) and the "drug pusher" behavior of these companies was just too evident. So, for me it was sort of a natural reaction to put as much distance as possible from "ZuckMyBerg" and his crap services, then Microshit and Crapple followed shortly after. The hardest part was moving away from Google (I know, they could easily be the worst offenders, but who's to say), and I'm almost 100% G-Free. Streaming (audio and video) followed closely.
At first it was a real struggle, trying to self-hosted as much as possible. But with all the amazing FOSS devs out there, it's also getting increasingly easier.
Yes, it's a lot of effort to move from all this cloud stuff and subscriptions to using only your own stuff, specially getting family and acquaintances to move away from the mainstream crap, in particular communication services (WhatsApp and the like). In all honesty though, I'm happy with this tradeoff, because only the people that really want to have me around choose to add the secure and private services I'm willing to use, effectively removing irrelevant individuals from my life.
My biggest concern right now are not evil corporations, but governments (democratic or otherwise) backing up all this privacy invasion and abuse.
When shit hits the fan, a lot of people will say (or just think) "damn, he told me about this and I didn't listen.
We, the ones that keep informed on these matters, have the responsibility to attempt to make others aware. Although it's really hard since most of us are not on mainstream channels and won't touch the common stuff with a 10 foot pole.
I guess I'll have to try that too. I was sort of circumventing this by clicking once and then hitting the "HOME" key in my keyboard. In any case, it's much more convoluted than it was when it worked as expected.
By the way, FF78 is when they started fucking it up like this.
There has to be some "hidden" setting to flip this to how it was before. I've just been too lazy to research it. Guess it's time to get off my ass and do just that.
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Maybe on mobile, I'll give that the benefit of the doubt. But doing it in desktop is just ridiculous and annoying as hell.
Vivaldi does that crap too. I'm used to clicking the bar, and selecting from there. Vivaldi fucks it up by suddenly showing the "https://" part and shifting everything else to the right. So fucking annoying.