409934 - First character entered in location bar disappears

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 406360

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Mahendra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2

When you start typing in a new entry in the Location bar, the following happens.

Say, I am entering "en.wikipedia.org"
* The moment I enter the first character ('e'), it is highlighted (orange, in Ubuntu)
* Now if I continue typing, the character is replaced with the next character ('n' in this case).
* So, the final typed entry would be - n.wikipedia.org

So, I have to either go back to the first position and type the entry or wait for the URL to show up from the drop-down (history/bookmarks)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start typing in a new location in the Location bar
2.See what happens when the first character is entered
3.Keep typing - which erases the first character


Expected Results:  
The whole URL whould be there in the location bar

I am using a downloaded tarball on a regularly updated Ubuntu 7.10 box.
$ uname -a
Linux kautilya 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Addons
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Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3
Dom Inspector - 1.9b2
Scrapbook - 1.3.2.2
Session Manager - 0.6.1.6

Themes
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Firefox(default) 2.0

Plugins
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Default Plugin

Comment 1

[Mahendra]

Note : This happens only when you do it for the first time in a new tab/window. If you delete the contents of the location bar and do it, it works fine. If you switch to a different tab and come back, the problem appears again

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

This is a duplicate of bug 406360, which is already fixed on trunk.

It only happens when browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll is set to true, so this also explains your problem reported in bug 409935.