Allow to completely disable link dragging functionality to simplify selecting text inside links
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(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, enhancement, P5)
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(Reporter: dmitriy-muraviov, Unassigned)
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Selecting text inside a link is a huge pain (on Google search results, for example). Link gets dragged instead of starting selecting text. I don't want to hold Alt key, and I never drag links, so I don't need link dragging functionality. Please, allow user to disable it (in about:config or wherever), so selecting text inside links would become as easy as selecting in plain text.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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224085 is related (it looks like I don't have permission to properly link them under See Also): that is a proposed solution for a special case of this general problem, i.e. when the user wants to (select and) copy the full text.
Note that the Alt-key is a workaround for this issue.
This issue is still in status UNCONFIRMED - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=copy%20link%20text suggests that it has relevance to more users.
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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For anybody wondering how to use the workaround without accidentally moving the Firefox window around: you have to press both Alt keys at once.
Alternatively, pressing left Alt and Windows key at once works too, if you have a windows key.
Still mysterious why this issue still has not been fixed in 22 years :-( (initially reported as bug #133661 !)
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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Comment 8 of bug 133661 specifically describes the problem. And is 21 years old!
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