409935 - Minor annoyances while copy-pasting in location bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(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

In Linux (X Windows), you can copy text by selecting text with the mouse. Paste can be done by using middle click.

Say, I have a URL in the location bar, which I want to manually modify to something slightly different.

* The Location bar has http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/2007/dec/27sld1.htm
* I want to modify it to http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/a/b/c by copy-pasting a/b/c from some other application.
* I delete the contents in the location bar to make it http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/ - so that I can copy-paste the remaining stuff.
* Now, I go to another app and copy the contents a/b/c
* When I click on firefox again, the location bar contents are selected (orange background - in Ubuntu).
* This means that the contents of the location bar have been copied into the buffer.
* Now when I middle click at the end of the location bar, instead of pasting a/b/c, the previous contents of the location bar are pasted.

* The location bar now shows - httphttp://specials.rediff.com/cricket/://specials.rediff.com/cricket/

Another minor annoyance is, when you delete characters from the end of the URL - say I have already gone to http://a.com/b/c/d
- Now I need to edit the URL to http://a.com/b/
- when you select "c/d" and hit "Delete", the remaining parts of the URL get selected (and copied into the X copy-paste buffer). i.e http://a.com/b/ is copied.
- Any previous selected (copied) text is lost.
- On hitting middle click to paste, this remaining URL is pasted into the app.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Explained in the Details section.

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

WORKSFORME (both problems).

Do you have enabled the setting "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" in about:config?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122704 Minefield/3.0b3pre ID:2007122704

Comment 2

[Ryan Hickman]

WORKSFORME on both.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012104 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

No answer from the reporter in 4 weeks, closing as WFM.

Note that bug 409934 indicates that the pref "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" is enabled, in which case this is expected behaviour (except for the "another minor annoyance", which also WFM).