Par For the Course

One day I am using Firefox ESR 60.6. Double-clicking on text while editing in Dokuwiki works as expected. The text is selected.

The next day Firefox is updated to 60.7. Double-clicking freezes Firefox. Completely. Losing all work.

Some infuriated debugging reveals the root cause is the Text Link add-on.

For years this add-on has been a helpful tool. The add-on allows double-clicking on a text string URL that is not hyperlinked and treats that text string as a hyperlink to open the URL in a new tab.

In my breakage I was not double-clicking on a text string URL. I was just selecting text.

Works one day and not the next?

Modern software development — update anything and expect breakage somewhere.

Posted: May 25, 2019 Category: Usability Tagged: Firefox, General

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