107835 - Selecting in URL Bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87410

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[ArronM (:paper)]

Partial selection in the URL bar is different from IE, Opera, & Netscape 4 and
under.

Steps to Produce:

1) Go to any URL
2) Make sure URL Bar is not currently selected (click on a blank section of the
webpage)
3) Click once on the URL bar (Makes it active; Full URL is selected)
4) Click somewhere in the middle of the URL and drag right.

Expected Results:  Select starts at position you initially clicked in step 4 and
highlights until where you dragged to.

Actual Results: Cursor changes to the "Move Text" cursor. Selection does not change.

Annoying Workaround: Click once, click again, then click a third time and drag.
 Don't do it too fast otherwise the URL Bar thinks they are double clicks.
This is a pet peeve of mine.  I often use this method to go back one directory
in the URL, or go to the main page of the URL (ie I'm on
http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/text-searching.html and I want to go to
http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/, so I select "text-searching.html" and delete it)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

You can use this preference if you don't like the default behaviour:
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", false);

(see the release notes to learn how to change hidden preferences)

Marking as dup of 62495 "clickSelectsAll should not trigger if you're selecting
text", 
Reporter: please reopen this bug if you disagree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62495 ***

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

This bug is more similar to bug 87410, drag in selection in URL bar should 
start a new selection instead of dragging text.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87410 ***

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe