197613 - Doubleclick in URL-bar only selects part of URL.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[viggen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

After upgrading to Mozilla 1.3 the url-bar acts a bit weird. When I open a new
tab through ctrl-t, or middle-click with the mouse and then try to edit the url
it won't select the whole url if I doubleklick, just the last few chars are
selected, sometime only the last "/" and nothing else.

This is a Win2k with SP3 that I've done this on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new tab.
2. Type an url, valid or not.
3. Doubleclick on the url-bar behind the url-text.

Actual Results:  
The last character or word was selected.

Expected Results:  
I expected Mozilla to select the whole text, but perhaps this is a design
feature and not a bug.

Thank You all for this wonderful product. I love it and use nothing else on any
system.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

exactly, that's by design.
Use a trible click

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Bug 125172 created the behavior. You might want to read bug 188567.

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** Bug 197740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Joe Mehaffey]

Ah.. Another gratituous functionality change making Mozilla operate differently
from other browsers..  When you add a NEW function it is poor system design to
change the OPERATION that millions of people are familiar with.  The NEW feature
should have been executed with the three click sequence and the full URL select
should have been left TWO clicks.  

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 197844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Hudson Kane]

completely agree with
Additional Comment #4 From Joe Mehaffey  2003-03-16 15:54 -------
this is a horrible design decision

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

*** Bug 197862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 197973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 198636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Andy Willis (abwillis)]

So is there a pref I can add to make this function as one would expect it too? 
Like comment #4 for instance where the triple click would select the / and a
double click selects the entire url (not that triple click would ever be used
then).  
If there isn't do I need to create a new bug for that feature or will this one
be reopened?
Andy

Comment 11

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 199642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 200299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Joe Mehaffey]

Many of us are wondering WHY the Mozilla designers think that what people want is 
a) two clicks highlight the file extention and 
b) three clicks highlight the entire filename.

Since I have NEVER had an occasion to highlight a file extention (alone) and
since ALL OTHER browsers seem to highlight the entire filename with a double
click,  I am perplexed as to WHY someone feels it is an improvement to have
Mozilla behave in a nonstandard manner so users have to click THREE times to
highlight the entire file.  Can someone enlighten us?
Thanks
Joe

Comment 14

[Andy Willis (abwillis)]

From my enhancement request:
------- Additional Comment #1 From Boris Zbarsky  2003-04-02 10:56 -------

user_pref("layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation", false);

will do what you want.


------- Additional Comment #2 From Jason Bassford 2003-04-02 11:34 -------

That preference is currently broken when used in user.js or prefs.js.  You *can*
use it in all.js, but if you upgrade to the latest nightlies all the time,
that's not a feasible workaround (since you'd have to be constantly editing the
file).

This is really a dupe of bug 188567.  (Well, not *technically* but since really
requesting a preference for this would only generate a WONTFIX result, it's the
best solution to the reporter's problem.)

Note: You can now also single click on the proxy icon to the left of the URL text.


------- Additional Comment #3 From Jason Bassford 2003-04-02 11:35 -------

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188567 ***

Comment 15

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 206034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 214513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Ildar Nurislamov]

today i have tested lastest snapshot on Windows XP. All was normal there - first click selects full url. Second click selects word.
But ame snapshot in Linux require 3click for selecting full, and double click selects words with characters surrounding - its ugly.

Comment 19

[Adam Guthrie]

See bug 190615, which would make double clicking select the entire URL.