1621600 - doubleClickSelectsAll preference no longer honored on Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1621570

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Adolfo Jayme]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

In Nightly 76.0a1 (2020-03-10) (64 bits), clicking the URL bar will select all the text in it, like in Windows. This is a regression.

Actual results:

One click on the URL bar highlights everything inside, immediately throwing away whatever I happened to have in my middle-click clipboard before. This makes me more unproductive.

Expected results:

A single click on the URL bar should just position the text cursor at the point of the click and not do anything else, so that the middle-click clipboard still contains my previous selection.

Middle-click paste is not a minor/exotic feature. It is crucial for people who work with text a lot, like journalists, writers and translators like me.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #0)

One click on the URL bar highlights everything inside, immediately throwing away whatever I happened to have in my middle-click clipboard before. This makes me more unproductive.

This should not happen, we don't set the primary selection on click-selection.

Can you please be more specific with Steps to reproduce the primary selection override?

Comment 4

[Adolfo Jayme]

After more testing I’ve confirmed that the middle-click clipboard is not immediately thrown away in most ocassions. However, this is neither intuitive nor predictable for users.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

ok, thanks for confirming, I'm restoring the dupe state

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

the primary selection (middle click) anyway is set only after a user explicit action, a selection that Firefox itself causes should never set it, if you (user) select something then it should be set.