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After using Chrome for a decade and switching back to Firefox, one feature I missed was the ability to right-click and Go to [url] directly, for any selected text that vaguely resembles a URL.

I made Goto foo to approximately replicate Chrome's behavior in Firefox, but it would be nice if no extension were necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe it is more visible that way, but the same can be done clicking on open link or open in private window.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Firefox's 'Open Link' feature is quite limited compared to Chrome. For example, try navigating to lemmy.ml using the "[email protected]" link in the sidebar.

Even in cases where it works, it doesn't preview the link target in the context menu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I just did exactly that, with both the link in the sidebar and the substring “lemmy.ml” from the full “[email protected]” string in your comment. It works different on Firefox, I suppose as a by product of being implemented differently, but it's not less powerful. Your plugin is cool and all, but it's use is extremely niche to save fractions of a second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did exactly that and it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I highlight the trailing lemmy.ml and select Open Link in New Tab, Firefox takes me to https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] (the original link target) instead of https://lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know what wrong with your browser set up but it takes me properly to lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]