381972 - Ctrl + Shift + arrow should select one part of the url

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190615

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[olli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
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This is a feature I would like to see in Firefox. This works in windows but not in linux. 

The url may be something like http://www.servername.com/subfolder/ingredients/

If I am in that location and I wish to change to http://www.servername.com/subfolder/ I have to put the mouse to the end of the url and paint the part /ingredients/ with the mouse and press delete. This manouver requires high accuracy. It would be easier if I could just put the mouse cursor to the end of the url, click crtl + shift + arrow left, and then press delete. Normally in other applications this combination (ctrl + shift + arrow left) selects (or paints) one word to the left. In this case Firefox does not recongize parts of the url separated by slashes (i.e. /). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put the mouse cursor to the end of the url.
2. Click ctrl + shift + arrow left
3. The whole url is selected, not just the first part or folder of the url.
Actual Results:  
Please see above.

Expected Results:  
Only one part (or folder) of the url should be selected.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

You can manually set layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation to "true" to get the behavior you want. Bug 190615 is about making this the default on Linux (as it is on other platforms).