327082 - Single clicking on the location bar to select the URI

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169996

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

Description

[Yuan Qi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060203 Camino/1.0rc1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060203 Camino/1.0rc1

I am in favour of switching to this behaviour because most of the time, you are using the location bar to enter a completely different URI and selecting the complete URI will allow the user to type in the new URI immediately instead of having to click and drag (apparantly, triple-clicking is also broken, but that's another bug). Another common use case would be to switch to a subdomain, which is easily done by double-clicking.

This is also the default behaviour of Safari. Since many of our new users are switching away from Safari, this would be a nice touch.

It would be nice if this feature could make it into v1.0/1.1. The feature should not be difficult to implement and it is one of those nice touches that makes an application feel polished.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

WTF? This doesn't happen in Safari, and I don't see a pref to toggle it anywhere.

Cmd-L works just fine for this. I'm fairly certain this is a dupe of a previously WONTFIXed bug, and for what it's worth, this was a HUGE complaint about IE 5.

Please use the search feature before filing bugs, Yuan.

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Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301530 ***