189576 - Mouse problems in marking part of text in URL bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62495

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[carl_landgren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216

There is a problem with marking part of the URL in the address bar(URL bar).

If i have a URL with "http://www.mozilla.org" and i want to mark "mozilla.org" 
with the mouse it doesn't work as it should, instead it wants to mark the whole 
URL "http://www.mozilla.org" It's a very annoying problem when....

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Hold down the left mouse button and mark the part of the URL in address bar 
you want to mark.
2.The result becomes that it marks the whole URL instead of just the part you 
wants it to mark.
3.

Actual Results:  
It marked the whole URL(text) instead of the part i wanted to mark at first.

Expected Results:  
What i wanted is that you could mark part of the URL(text) with mouse instead 
of the result being the whole text in the address bar.b

To mark the part of the URL you want to remove you have to click twice and the 
drag the mouseover the part you want to remove.

That is not the standard way of doing things.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87410 ***

Comment 2

[Ian Nartowicz]

Bug 87410 is not about the whole URL getting selected on mousedown.  That is bug
62495.  This is fixed and I no longer observe this sort of behaviour on Win98,
build ID 2003011508.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

Agreed.  This is not a duplicate of bug 87410.  Furthermore, even if using
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true); the entire URL is only
selected if if you release the mouse button.

To do what this bug wants (and which is already WFM with 2003011708 / XP) click
on the "m" in "mozilla", do NOT release the mouse button, and drag to the "g" in
"org".  Now just "mozilla.org" is highlighted.

Comment 4

[Vaclav Dvorak]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62495 ***