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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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Handy 1-liner script to copy link addresses in Firefox just by hovering and pressing a key

Posted 09-06-2016 at 11:58 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-30-2016 at 02:11 AM by the dsc (grammerz und orthographicz ure wrongzes)
Let's say, there is a page with several interesting podcasts, you want to download several of them, not all. Don't bother with dozens of right-click-copy-url-then-go-and-paste-somewhere-somehow. Just hover the link and press a custom key that runs this script line:

Code:
xdotool click 3 && xdotool mousemove_relative 5 5 && xdotool key a && echo "$(xclip -o)" >> /dev/shm/ffclipboard
For Debian (sid/testing, as of 2016), apparently...
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