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Drag and drop URL tricks with Chimera Web Browsers
A lot of times there are links in Read Me files which you need to copy and paste into a browser from TextEdit, or use a Service menu item to go to the URL. But you can also select the URL and drag and drop it into a browser window. In Chimera, you can also drag and drop the link on the Tab Bar which will open the link in a new Tab, or drop it over a specific tab to open the link in that tab.

You can also drag links from within Chimera over the Tab Bar to open the link in a new tab as discussed in a recent hint. Dragging any word onto Chimera will also open the .com of that word. For instance, if you selected the word "apple" from a sentence and dropped it on a tab, it would open www.apple.com.

[Editor's note: Of course, drag and drop is a 'normal' Mac technology, but Chimera seems to do more with it than, for example, Safari. In Safari, you can only drop fully formed URLs; Chimera handles basic words and partial URLs, such as 'www.somesite.com' or 'somesite.com' that Safari ignores.]
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It's in Mozilla itself....
Authored by: greed on Jan 29, '03 05:21:37PM

I just checked with Mozilla on Linux, and the same trick works. Highlight text and drag to a tab to open that text as a URL, with the same "fuzzy" interpretation given to human-entered URLs.

I don't have an OS X box at work to check Mozilla on OS X with, looks like any Gecko browser should be able to do this.



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