219156 - URL - address line must not select text when clicked ONCE

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 218315

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Jari Aalto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030913 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030913 Firebird/0.6.1+

Suppose situation

1) URL address line contains an address
2) You point mouse to it and click
=> It selects all of URL

This is bad, Every other browser allows using a click
on address bar to POSITION the cursor at point, not selecting
the address. The problem is that

*) You copy a URL elsewhere
1) You intend to paste itinto URL address field
2) No joy, clicking the URL field selects the text and
   wipes your previously copied URL from cut-buffer
   (primary selection)

=> Please make ONE click to position the point
two fast clicks to selects a word
3 fast clicks to select whole line.

That would be consistent with the xterm / rxvt / Emacs
way of clicking with mouse.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
More consistent behavior, when the current Mouse handling is changed to
more standard way.

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

to request feature set severity: enhancement.

moving to toolbars.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218315 ***