442107 - Triple click select a paragraph instead of a line in previous version

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Guy_M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

When triple click in a paragraph, it select the current paragraph. In previous version, it selected the current line. It made reading of large text on wide screen very confortable. This very annoying bug happend when more and more screne are wide ! Very bad idea.

Quand on triple clic, cela sélectionne le paragraphe au lieu de la ligne comme dans les version précédente. Très mauvaise idée, la sélection de ligne permet d'avoir un guide de lecture, surtout pour les long texte (scroll fréquent) sur le large écran. Ce changement intervient au plus mauvais moment. C'est un monstrueux bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Very bad an unpleasent surf experience

Expected Results:  
Great reading confort

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

This works fine for me. Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a new profile
- a reinstall in a new EMPTY folder? 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Guy_M]

The new default setting of triple-click is not very good. You can go back to the right behaviour, in about:config set browser.triple_click_selects_paragraph to false

Pour contourner cette option malheureuse par défaut il suffit dans about:config de mettre browser.triple_click_selects_paragraph à false.

Comment 3

[Guy_M]

I put severity from "critical" to "trivial"

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, and have not been changed for 800 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you
still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the
resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 6

[Guy_M]

Tested with a new profile in Firefox 3.6.12
By default, when triple click in a paragraph, it always select the current paragraph.
In my default profile, I set about:config browser.triple_click_selects_paragraph to false
This work fine.
Could you please put this option in the option panel ?

J'ai testé avec un profil neud dans Firefox 3.6.12
Par défaut, le triple clic dans le paragraphe sélectionne le paragraphe.
Dans mon profil par défaut j'ai mis  about:config browser.triple_click_selects_paragraph à false
Ça marche bien
Pourriez-vous s'il vous plaît ajouter cette option dans le panneau de configuration.