On Linux, a single click in search bar selects all without primary selection
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: fanf42, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0
Steps to reproduce:
Click on the search bar.
Actual results:
The whole text in search bar is selected
Expected results:
The cursor appears where O clicked without anything selected.
It seems to be a willing choice, since it appears in release note here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/ (fifth point).
But that behavior is a cognitive burden for me: it's inconsistant with everything else on my platform.
I can understand that you (mozilla) want to minimize cost of switching from chrome even on linux, but please, just add a config in about:config to let people who never switched to another platform nor browser have the behavior that they are used to and which is consistant with their desktop.
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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Copying explanation from a similar bug (bug 1629434)
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.
@francesco: I understand it's a coherent behavior accross browser - but I use only one browser, firefow, since 2002. I really don't care of other browser behavior.
On the other hand, I do really care of the consistant behavior among all my tools. And I can assure you that firefox is the only one to have that behavior, because it impose on me an imense cognitive burden.
Just to be clear: I don't ask for a change on the default behavior: you manage your platform as you want, even if I don't agree (and I don't agree often - but I bear with it, I'm not in your shoes, and I learn to workaround what is the worst). I just want an option to be able to choose a consistant behavior on my desktop. And AFAIU, a plugin can't be done to change that behavior.
Sorry, I'm not sure if I should write here or on duplicated bug?
Please provide a setting to turn this behaviour off again. Bug 1621570 describes you can double click to place the cursor without selection, but this is not true (on Linux), because double click selects the word under the cursor. Tripple click selects the whole text again.
This may be coherent with Chromium based Browsers, but it is counter intuitive compared with the rest of Linux UIs (e.g. the Location bar in Dolphin).
For me there is no need to change the default behaviour, but I would like to have a setting for changing the behaviour.
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