1741758 - browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll no longer available

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1621570

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[FredSmithfield777]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

about:config
The following key is no longer available:
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll
So I am no longer able to select disable.

Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, OS build 19043.1348

Actual results:

If I click in urlbar, it selects all which is NOT what I want to happen.

Expected results:

If browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll was only available like it was in previous versions I could set it to disable.
Then when I click in the urlbar, a cursor would appear where I clicked.
I often edit a search string to make changes during searching.
Having a click select all is annoying since I only want to correct or erase a word - not the entire string. This is very annoying since browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll previously was available. It is so annoying that I changed my default browser to Chrome.

Comment 2

[FredSmithfield777]

This is NOT a "duplicate of bug" if you read this bug report carefully.
It says that users should have the freedom of choice to decided to enable or disable this feature.
Forcing us to add extra key strokes for a frequently used search feature is poor programming practice.
If I programmed like this at another prominent software company I worked for, they would have fired me.
You previously had browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll so why not bring it back since MANY users are complaining that it is gone.
Let the user make the decision - not you.
I use search often.
Sorry to say that it is so annoying I will return to Chrome.
At least, Chrome seems to have their act together on this feature.
I am saddened that Firefox no longer listens to their users.

Comment 3

[mark_ivo]

(In reply to FredSmithfield777 from comment #2)

Hi Fred, i can't also understand why developers at Firefox removed this important pref. I hate it too. Can you explain me how you disable this stupid behavior in Chrome?