#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Clipboard;
my $browser = $ENV{BROWSER} || 'firefox';
system($browser, Clipboard->paste);

=head1 NAME

browseclip - Load a URL from the clipboard into your browser.

=head1 MOTIVATION

It saves a couple of seconds every time you run it.  Firefox, for example,
automatically creates a new tab and loads the page when you invoke it from the
command line.  Already we've saved a Ctrl+T and a Shift+Insert.  When you
consider the parallelizing (that your browser will be actively loading the
page while you're Alt+Tabbing to it), you've squeaked out a little more.

Maybe I'm just a freak, but I like shaving out wasted time like that.

=head1 X+FIREFOX MOTIVATION

It seems like Firefox (currently) isn't very smart about the X selections.  If
your data is in the "buffer" or "primary" selection, it will find it every
time.  But if it's in "clipboard" or "secondary", it won't.

When I understand all of this better I might submit some kind of bug report or
patch to Firefox, but for now this script puts the love on me just fine.

=head1 CONFIGURATION

The environment variable C<$BROWSER> will change from the default, which is
"firefox".

=head1 AUTHOR

Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005.  Ryan King.  All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

See L<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
