169996 - Clicking in the address field should select the entire address

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Location Bar & Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Marc Pawliger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020919
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020919

Clicking in the address field should select the entire address.  Currently it
just sets the insertion point.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit a page such that the address field is filled in with a URI
2.Click in the address field
3.Note the insertion point is set where you clicked


Actual Results:  
The insertion point was set where I clicked

Expected Results:  
The entire URI should have been selected

The most often reason to click in the address field is to enter a URI.  If
clicking only sets the insertion point, you need to click, Cmd-A or click and
drag to select all, then press delete to clear the address to enter a new one. 
If the entire address is selected, you need only press delete to clear the field
to enter a new URI.  You can always click again in the address if you want to
set the insertion point within the URI to change it, but that is a far less
common operation than replacing the entire address.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Mozilla enables control over this using:
   user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);
or
   user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", false);
in the user.js file. This doesn't seem to have any effect on Chimera.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Reassigning to URL Bar & Autocomplete.

Comment 3

[Brad Kemper]

clicking on the icon selects the whole line, and clicking within the URL sets an
insertion point (making it easier to edit an existing URL), like clicking in a
text field in most Mac applications.

Comment 4

[Winnie Lam]

Need to decide if there should be UI for this pref.

Comment 5

[S Woodside]

Do people really think we should do this? You can always triple-click in the URL
b ar as well. Personally I find the click and it selects-all behaviour in IE to
be very annoying. What happens with the naïve user?

Comment 6

[Jasper]

If people want the entire address to be selected with one click all they have to
do is click on the globe or site icon. 

I don't see why we want to change our current behaviour which takes care of most
things people would ever want to do. I often use the one click to re-edit the
address. Replacing it with selecting the entire address would be annoying for me.

- 1 click on site icon selects entire address
- 1 click in addres filed puts carret in text
- 2 clicks selects word
- 3 clicks selects entire address

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

not gonna change this.