103858 - Right-clicking selected text in the location bar causes all text in the bar to be selected before the context menu appears

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 96446

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[George Glynn]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5+)
Gecko/20011009
BuildID:    2001100903

If I drag-select a portion of of the text in the location bar (e.g. one word in
a URL), and right-click on the selection (in order to use the copy/cut/paste
functions on the context menu), the entire string of text in the bar is
automatically selected before the context menu appears. Picking copy and pasting
into Notepad confirms that all of the text is actually selected and not just
highlighted, and I am able to copy a partial selection if I drag-select and pick
Copy from the browser window's Edit menu. I don't have a context menu key on my
keyboard, so I don't know if that produces the same behavior as the right-click
in this case.

The location bar is the only place I've seen this behavior. It works as expected
on all other input fields I've run across (e.g. the fields in Preferences, the
fields in the mail account setup wizard).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag-select a portion of the text in the location bar.
2. Place the mouse pointer over the highlighted selection and click the right
mouse button.

Actual Results:  All of the text in the the location bar is autoselected before
the context menu appears.

Expected Results:  The text selection should not be altered before the context
menu appears.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Confirming on 2001100803/WinNT4.0
Same using context menu key.

Comment 2

[George Glynn]

The problem occurs whenever you call for a context menu in the location bar, so
you can't insert or append text in the bar using the Paste function from the
context menu, either.

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

just a dup of 96446 "Right clicking on location bar selects entire location"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96446 ***