193080 - double-click on URL Bar does not select all

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Christopher Thomas Nicodemus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When I double-click on the URL bar, it only selects the word, in the past, it
would select the whole thing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go somewhere like www.ml.org
2.double-click in the URL bar
3.

Actual Results:  
Only the word that was double-clicked was selected.

Expected Results:  
The entire URL should be selected.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

Why would you want to double-click the URL bar to mark the URL completely when a
single-click is enough?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This was a purposeful change.  Either single or triple click will select the
whole thing.

Or you can set the hidden pref to change the behavior.

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

This falls somewhere between invalid, and a dupe of another bug.  In sum, the
behavior was meant to be changed in this way.  If the clickSelectsAll pref is
set, you can single-click in the URL bar to select everything.  Double-clicking
will now select just a portion, per bug 98546.

Other related bugs are:
bug 188567 - double-click to the right of text to select everything
bug 24651 - have a button to clear the URL bar
bug 125172 - related to bug 98546, and fixed by that checkin
bug 116441 - mac bug about clickSelectsAll and clicks after the text