309301 - Locationbar doesn't select entire url when gaining focus

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Danny Bloemendaal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

In previous versions of FF (<1.5) the url in the location bar got selected when
a user clicks inside it. With 1.5 this is no longer the case and that is
seriously wrong from a usability perspective. Mostly users want to type in a new
url and therefore the url needs to be selected first before it can be cleared.
Now you have to click 3 times in the bar (or painfully aim at the icon in front
of it, which is by far *not* obvious) to select the url and to be able to
replace it.

Please fix this. It is wrong how it's done now.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

See bug 233977 and bug 134649 for details. It's not a bug, Mac textfields are
expected to work consistently.

Workaround : set browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll to true in about:config