1655491 - Nearly impossible to select URL in line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1621570

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Klaus Ethgen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Around May/June, there was an update of how the URL line work when clicking into it.

After the update, it is nearly impossible to do it correct.

• When I single click, the whole line is selected but it is not in the select buffer one would expect, so middle click in editor or shell or somewhere does not paste the URL.
• When I double click (what was used before to select the line into the paste buffer), only one word is selected, what is absolute useless for the URL line.
• When I click at one position to delete from there, the whole URL gets deleted and not only the character before. So editing an URL is nearly impossible.

So since the change to the URL line it is nearly impossible to select the whole URL for pasting into a editor/shell. Usually I find myself klicking many times unless the full URL is selected.

I searched endless to find a config setting to disable this "new" and
"enhanced" behaviour.

Please revert that or at least provide the user to disable that annoying behavior!

Side note, I never ever use that broken ctrl-c/ctrl-v stuff. I always use the middle button of my mouse as it is used for ages on unix.

Actual results:

Strange thinks, see above.

Expected results:

One click: put the cursor exactly on that position in URL with nothing selected

Double click: Select the whole URL to be pasted with middle click.

Comment 1

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Attachment: click.webm

Hi Klaus,

I'm attaching a video performing single click (position cursor in word) double click (highlights word in which cursor stands) and three consecutive clicks (highlights whole link), please confirm this is what you're experiencing, as it doesn't seem impossible to me to be able to delete or copy what I need to.

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

I will move this over to a component so developers can take a look over it. If is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for the report.

Best,
Clara

Comment 3

[ryance]

Please vote for this bug if you'd to have basic functionality restored to the address and search bars: [[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570]]

The option to vote is under the Details section at the top.

Comment 4

[ryance]

(In reply to ryance from comment #3)

Please vote for this bug if you'd like to have basic functionality restored to the address and search bars: [[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570]]

The option to vote is under the Details section at the top.