270390 - bad interaction between autocomplete pop-up and double-clicking to select word

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261862

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Chris Lightfoot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0

Double-clicking on the part of a text input box to the right of any entered
terms should select the last word in the input box (this was the behaviour in
Mozilla and in most other GTK applications). But where there is autocomplete
functionality, sometimes the first click brings up the autocomplete box and the
second click does not result in the last word of the line being selected. This
happens about half the time I try it, but I suspect it depends on interval
between double-clicks and speed of machine.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/, type "fish soup" in input field, click "Google
Search"
2. Double-click in text input box to the right of the word "soup".


Actual Results:  
Sometimes, the autocomplete box pops up and then disappears; other times, the
word "soup" is selected.

Expected Results:  
Select the word "soup" (the last word on the line).

Comment 1

[Leo]

I can confirm this with the following steps.

1) Go to google.com and insert a search string.
2) Click anywhere outside of the search box.
3) Click in the middle of a word in your search query
3) Double click on that word.

Results: The autocomplete box shows up and dissappears because of the second
click instead of selecting the word.
Reproducible: Always

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Chris Lightfoot]

yep, still there.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #3)
> yep, still there.

in what version ? Firefox 1.5 beta 2 ?

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261862 ***