317344 - Double clicking word in middle of sentence should not select the spacing after it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88228

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Ido Beeri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Try double clicking a word in the middle of this sentence.

As you can see, if you double-clicked the word 'clicking' above for example, it selected "clicking " (notice the space) instead of just "clicking".

I think that it's a bug and that it should be fixed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Quoting from http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/proposal#II._Keyboard_Navigation_in_a_Block_of :
<ctrl+right> is more complicated - its behavior depends on a preferences setting  layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word.
It defaults to true on Windows, but false on Linux/Solaris/Mac.
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While I must admit this is weird, this is consistent with how Windows works, and is therefore a default setting in Firefix. If you wish to change this, open about:config, search for layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word, and change its value to false. This will stop the problem for you.

Most likely, this will be WONTFIX or INVALID, but I'll let the module owner decide that. Also, moved to correct "Selection" component.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

As per lots of discussion on IRC, this is a DUPE of 88228.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88228 ***