542834 - double-click should select word, not all

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

double click on a point in the url in the location bar in Windows or Mac and it selects on word-boundary. triple click selects all.

on Linux, double click selects all, and there's no way to select on word boundary.

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

this is likely about the textbox, not the location bar. switched to Toolkit:XUL Widgets.

Comment 2

[Helder]

I confirm this problem on Firefox 28.0, using Linux Mint.

Test case: while I'm writting this comment, the URL in the location bar is
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926249
and if I double click on "mozzilla" the selection becomes "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926249", but it should be just "mozzilla". On the other hand, if I double click in the same word in the example I'm writting on this text box, the word is selected as expected.

Possibly related bugs:
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611162
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926249
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966651