245708 - Ctrl+Backspace in address bar (location bar) should only delete words up to the previous slash character

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190615

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Keith Lea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: 

Currently, on Windows, pressing Ctrl+Backspace when the location bar is at
"http://example.com/first/second" (with the cursor at the end) will produce
"http://example.com/first/". On Linux, however, the entire URL is deleted,
leaving the location bar empty.

This makes Ctrl+Backspace practically useless on Linux except when you want to
clear the location bar, which could be easily done with "Shift+Home, Backspace"
or using the mouse.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jan Krcal]

This problem isn't related to the location bar only (however in the location bar
it's most obvious and annoying)...
It happens in every html:input and when selecting text by double-click also.
It's common to every mozilla gecko-based software on linux I tested (at least to
Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird)
In windows mozilla uses several text delimiters (as '/', '.', '@' etc) together
with space. In linux it uses (as far as I know) space only.

Comment 2

[Neil Paris]

This can be controlled via the pref layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation

Duping this to bug 190615, which wants that pref set to true by default (on Linux)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190615 ***