387103 - Ctrl-Shift-Arrow in location bar - changed behavior

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 385565

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Amir Aharoni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6) Gecko/20070629 GranParadiso/3.0a6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6) Gecko/20070629 GranParadiso/3.0a6

I installed Alpha 6 on Windows XP and i see a change of behavior, which is very significant to me:

Ctrl-Alt-Shift in the address bar works differently.

I experience it a lot on Wikipedia, but all websites are affected.

On Wikipedia, URLs of article have the form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_name. Spaces can be entered instead of underscores: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article name ' will work.

After i visit one article, the URL is stored in history, and then if i just enter `en.' in the address, it is auto-completed. Then i can delete the 'Article name' part and enter the article that i am looking for. To make things faster i use Ctrl-Shift-Left.

In IE and in all versions of Firefox, including 3.0 alpha 5 (as far as i recall) Ctrl-Shift-Left would select up to the A of Article name; but in Alpha 6 it selects up to the / before the A. So if i use the key combination to which i am used to and type a new article name, what i get is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiAnother article name

instead of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another article name

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a URL which ends with /word
2. Press END to be sure that you are in the end of the URL
3. Press Ctrl-Shift-Left

Actual Results:  
Notice that `/word' is selected.

Expected Results:  
In previous versions only `word' would be selected.