Best Practices for Making Source Code Available Under the GPL

When you release code under the GNU General Public License (GPL), you undertake a specific set of obligations. Many of these obligations, such as providing a copyright notice and a copy of the GPL version you are using, are relatively simple.

When you release code under the GNU General Public License (GPL), you undertake a specific set of obligations. Many of these obligations, such as providing a copyright notice and a copy of the GPL version you are using, are relatively simple. However, the obligation to provide source code with the object code is more complex, because you have several choices about how to fulfill it – and the choice you make can cause ongoing problems, especially if you are not set up to administer it.

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Select the entire URL on a single click in Firefox’s address bar under linux

For those using Windows and Linux everyday, and who prefer the behavior of Firefox under Windows….

In Firefox, go the the page:
about:config

Filter the settings on “urlbar” and right-click/toggle on :
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll
to change the value to “true”

For applying this to all users, you can change the firefox.js file :

/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/defaults/preferences/firefox.js on RHEL / CentOS/usr/share/firefox/defaults/pref/firefox.js on ubuntu

Change
user_pref(”browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll”, false);
to ‘true’.

Here are some useful Firefox shortcuts:

Ctrl + L - select the URL
Ctrl + I - show page information
Ctrl + K - select text in search bar
Esc when the pointer is in the address bar to select the url

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