Closed Bug 1621747 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Single clicks selects all text in URLBar

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Desktop
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: shane, Unassigned)

References

(Regression)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

When making a single click in the URLBar it now auto-selects everything. It also seems the options in "about:config" to make it a double click has been removed.

Can we have that option back? As a developer it is crucial to be able to single click in the url and append a quick query parameter for testing. Now this results in the whole URL being deleted - Making me need to double click to un-select the whole URL, which is the opposite of what I had set in "about:config". Before I had it set to require double click to select all, but, after updating, both the option and the function have been downgraded to how it worked prior to my changes and removed.

Regressed by: 333714
Has Regression Range: --- → yes

The behavior has been unified with other OSes and browsers on Linux. We don't plan to add back options because they add costs to the maintenance and development of new features.
I understand your frustration, but that is how it works for developers on any other OS and browser, it may just take a little bit to retrain. On the positive side you can now double click to select a "word".

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

Can we rollback to previous version of firefox where this was available? I switched from Chrome because of "about:config" control - but those options are being slowly removed, limiting the customization of the browser. I'm not mad, just unsure of what browser I should use now that "about:config" is no longer reliable.

Resolution: DUPLICATE → WONTFIX

We only remove options that give a very minor advantage over the default and that cover edge cases, this use-case was not consistent with other OS nor with other browsers on Linux. It was also causing a few bugs, missing features and adding QA cost when implementing new features.
Other prefs are removed because they are temporary (like they exist only until a feature is stable).
In general prefs are not removed with a light heart, decisions are tricky and may take years, the long term goal is still to provide a consistent experience to users.
You can move to a previous version, but I must discourage that, for security reasons. You could move to ESR that buys you a bit more time, but sooner or later it will catch up to release.

Ah ok, well that helps me understand the choice a bit more. Though, I am curious as to how it could cause so many issues with other things - but this isn't the place for that. I'm one of the few users that just needs a urlbar to type in and make searches - I don't need all the fancy stuff, nor do I use it - but that is my use-case and is not the general opinion on urlbars.

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