185769 - Clicking right of the URL places the cursor at the right end of the URL instead of selecting the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 116441

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Pieter ter Borg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216

In previous builds (for example 1.2.1) clicking right of the URL selected the
URL, just as clicking on the URL does. In version 1.3a and recent daily builds
this behavious has changed. ClickSelectsAll is enabled. Since I usually click on
the address bar to enter a new URL, I prefer the URL to be selected after
clicking anywhere in the address bar. On the other hand, this might be an
intentional change in Mozilla's behaviour which I am unaware of.
This bug appears to be different from bug 169996, which describes a similar
problem on Macintosh computers that happens when clicking anywhere in the
address bar, and happened in earlier builds.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on the address bar at the right side of the present URL
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The cursor is placed at the right end of the URL, and typing appends text to the
URL.

Expected Results:  
The URL is selected, and typing will overwrite it.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Try double left click on URL bar.

It works for me like this ;-)

Comment 2

[Pieter ter Borg]

Double clicking in the same space does indeed select the URL. However, in
previous Mozilla builds, as well as in any other browser I know (for example
Internet Explorer, Phoenix, Opera), clicking anywhere in the address bar selects
the entire URL. Unless this is an intentional change in UI behaviour, I think it
should be regarded a bug.

Comment 3

[Ian Nartowicz]

This behaviour is caused by a patch for bug #116441, and is currently being
changed to your expected behaviour, although platform-dependant.  I don't know
how you want to label this bug since it isn't technically a duplicate, but it
will be fixed in a matter of days.

Comment 4

[David G King]

If the fix for Bug #116441 fixes this, Windows, problem, then this is a dup, and
116441 should have OS changed to ALL.

Comment 5

[u60234]

*** Bug 187688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 198216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Benjamin Streeck]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116441 ***