1629434 - [regression] Firefox on Linux selects URL text on focus in URL bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1621570

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Neil Skrypuch]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click in URL bar

Actual results:

1. URL text is selected

Expected results:

URL text should not be selected.

This is a regression from Firefox 74, where the URL text was not selected.

I understand why this behaviour makes sense on Windows or Mac OS as they have no X copy buffer, but it is terrible on Linux. If you want to copy the current URL into the X copy buffer in Firefox 75, this is the process now:

1. click into URL bar (text is selected but not copied)
2. pause a moment so it's not a double click
3. click into URL bar again (text is unselected)
4. pause a moment again so it's not a double click
5. double click at the beginning of the URL and drag to the end (text is copied)

This is really inconvenient for what is a pretty common operation, especially compared to what it used to be:

1. double click anywhere in the URL bar (text is copied)

I had a quick look through about:config and preferences, but I couldn't see any way to disable this new behaviour. Please consider adding a toggle for the select on focus behaviour even if it's on by default.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

As explained in the rel-notes, this is the new behavior of the Address Bar, that is coherent with other browsers on Linux and Firefox on all the OS.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Note, you can triple click to copy the whole url, it's a common operation on all the textboxes to select all. double click selects a word