In Linux distros and many other Unix-like operating systems, any text highlighted anywhere is copied straight to the clipboard the moment it has been highlighted, always. You then paste with a simple click of the middle-mouse button (which nowadays usually means the scrollwheel of your mouse). It&#x27;s an excellent feature.<p>Firefox and Chrome, unfortunately, when doing auto-complete in the address bar, highlight the auto-completed part, overwriting your clipboard. This becomes a problem when you copy something and then open a new tab and begin to type out the URL of the site where you intended to use the copied string.<p>My way of dealing with this problem has been to add shortcuts on the new tab page to the sites where I frequently want to use copied content; archive.is, reddit and HN as well as a few others. That way I can at least navigate to those sites without touching the address bar.<p>One could of course turn off auto-complete in the browsers but aside from the situation mentioned above, auto-complete is such a useful feature.<p>I wish the browsers could find another way of implementing the auto-complete, not overwriting clipboard, but still retaining easy removal of the auto-completed part of the string.<p>Also, while we&#x27;re on the subject of browsers and text highlight, I wish the drag-and-drop-ability of links from the webpage could be turned off by the user. Sometimes I want to start highlighting in the middle of a hyperlinked text. I never want to drag the link anywhere. I still like being able to drop files into the browser, though -- either to open them in the browser or to drop them onto an upload area of a page.