199988 - When address bar has focus, switching to another window and back selects entire url

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90587

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Ken Beal]

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

When typing in the URL bar, if I switch to another window and back, and the
entire selection is highlighted.  This is rather annoying if I'm copying some
text from a window which I cannot cut-and-paste from (a PDF, or a scanned image
from a newspaper with job postings that my mom sent me, for this specific example).

I request that the URL *not* be highlighted after Alt+Tabbing to another window
and back.

(Btw I just tested it and Internet Explorer works the same way Mozilla currently
does, so it makes sense that the behavior is the way it is currently.  However,
if not possible to change the default to not do this, at least perhaps we can
create a preference.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click in URL bar and start typing.
2. Switch to other window using Alt+Tab.
3. Switch back using Alt+Tab to find the entire selection in the URL bar
highlighted.

Actual Results:  
The entire selection in the URL bar was highlighted.

Expected Results:  
It should have left the window exactly as it was, i.e. with any highlight left
the way it was, and with the cursor in the same position that it was.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->URL bar

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90587 ***