305363 - double-clicking text gives behavior inconsistent with all other OS X apps

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 16203

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Esham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2.2
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In Mac OS X, when you double-click on a word, the word is selected; if you then drag the cursor over 
another word, that *entire* word is also selected.  In Thunderbird, however, double-clicking selects one 
word but dragging only selects individual characters, not entire words.  (I believe this is the standard with 
other OSes, but it's the wrong behavior for OS X.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any mail or news message; let's assume it contains the text "just testing".
2. Double click on the word "just".
3. Drag the cursor into the middle of the word "testing".  The letters "tes" or "test" might be selected, but 
the entire word should be selected.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16203 ***