VDQ on Firefox : Unix keyboard how?

[beartooth]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:32:14 -0500, Derick Centeno wrote:

> I understand that you want consistency in application design as well as
> perhaps some reliability regarding which commands do what and when.
> However, what I have to say will not make you happy.

Thank you very much for all the good stuff I have just snipped; it did
help -- even though the history  you gave does remind me of an anatomist
friend's comment that the endocrine system disproves the theory of a
rational God ....

> If you are seeking tried and true consistency in interface design and
> application reliability you cannot do better than use the Macintosh OS.
                      <more snippage>
Been there, tried that, don't even want to remember; sorry.

I realize that people once accustomed to it actually like the apple
interface -- and maybe women in ancient China liked their feet, too. It
*seems* intuitive, perhaps, to those who have grown up with it -- but only
because it's *second* nature to them. 

To both my wife and me (especially me), having begun with OS/2, gone to
W95 and W98, and then RedHat 7.2, that interface is even more infuriating
that the constant crashes of W98. I took vast pleasure in telling the YDL4
installer to wipe OSX off this machine. I almost did with 3.0, and wished
I had.

But if I *can't* get Firefox to let me handle URLs the way I want, I'll
try your previous suggestion, and see if I can get used to highlighting
and using the delete key.

After all, I use that method in Pan; also, ^K deletes whole lines in pico,
and I live with that: after always making the mistake the first time I
edit anything, I do ^U and delete with the backspace. Sigh.

Anyway, thanks again! I do appreciate all the very lucid explanation.