301530 - Clicking on the location bar does not select the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169996

(Camino Graveyard :: Location Bar & Autocomplete, enhancement)

Description

[comctrl6]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2

When a URL is shown, when the user clicks on the location bar, the URL is not
selected and, therefore, the user has to triple click to select the whole URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the location bar.

Actual Results:  
The URL is not selected

Expected Results:  
The software should select the entire URL in the location bar.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is by design (there's an old bug that explains it); click on the
favicon/globe to select the entire URL (or use cmd-L), or click in the URL to
insert the cursor to edit the URL.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

*** Bug 327082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***