428592 - Clicking in location bar selects all text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 134649

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Douglas Pollock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

I have recently upgraded to Firefox 3 Beta 5.  I am finding that I am very frustrated by a change in behaviour in the location bar.  I find myself deleting my location bar contents multiple times per day.

When the location bar is clicked, all text is selected.  When this is done on Firefox 2 GTK and Mac, the text is not selected and insertion point appears at the point clicked.  On Firefox 3 Mac, all the text is selected and there is no insertion point.  So if I click at the end of the line (or in the middle) and start typing, it wipes out the current contents.

Use case:

    * Type something incorrectly into the location bar
    * Realize the mistake after pressing enter
    * Click back into the location bar at the point of error
    * Press any key and the whole URI is erased

Now what is a user to do?  Well, if a point in the location bar is double-clicked, then an entire word is select.  If triple-clicked, then the whole line is selected.  The only way to click to focus the point is to single-click ... wait ... single-click again.  My intention when clicking in the location bar is to provide a specific insertion point.  If I didn't want to do that, I would double-click, triple-click or press Cmd+L (F6).

Other use cases: missing something on the end of the URI, want to switch the server but not the path, etc.

My apologies if I am using an out-of-date Firefox 3 or simply don't understand how the location bar is supposed to work.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup