208391 - Different behaviour when selecting address bar under Linux and Windows

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Christophe Veber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When the cursor was outside the address bar and I click into the address bar,
Windows and Linux Mozilla behaves differently:
Under Windows, the whole text/address is selected. Under Linux, the cursor is
placed at the click position.
Imgo, this should be unified; I prefer the Windows behaviour.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make certain address bar has no focus (e.g. click somewhere on web page)
2.Make single-click into address bar


Actual Results:  
Windows: Whole text/address is selected.
Linux: No text is selected, cursor is placed at click position.

Expected Results:  
Behavirous should be unfified. I prefer the complete selection of the address text.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

-> browser

this was probably done on purpose since on some platforms selection is
automatically copied to the clipboard

Comment 2

[Christophe Veber]

As far as I know, most Unix GUIs (KDE 3 for sure) have a dedicated copy&paste
functionality.
Therefore, it may be appropriate  to change this.

Comment 3

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Reporter, this behaviour is determined by the value of the boolean pref
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll. On Windows it defaults to true, on Linux it
defaults to false.

If you want the same behaviour on Linux as on Windows, go to about:config and
set the pref to true.

Resolving INVALID.