456775 - Single click in location bar auto-selects entire URL; unexpected and deviant behavior.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134649

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jeremy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091618 Firefox/3.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091618 Firefox/3.0.2

When you use <command>-l to access the address bar, the entire URL should be selected as expected.  However, the standard UI for mouse-clicks is: one click places a cursor in the URL at the mouse location; two clicks selects the word at the mouse location; three clicks selects the entire URL.

This unexpected behavior strongly impacts navigation within one domain as the task of changing the file generally degrades into: click location bar, type page (ie, index.php), press enter.  This procedure in all other browsers results in appending "index.php" the the existent URL in the location bar.  With Firefox, it results in attempting to access index.php -- which results in a google search for the string or an attempt to view "http://index.php"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit facebook.com
2. Click in the location bar to the right of the URL and type index.php

Actual Results:  
Result: http://index.php

Expected Results:  
Expected: http://www.facebook.com/index.php

This deviation most significantly impacts web-developers and site administrators.  There is a significant delay between the initial click and the highlighting of the entire url.  A double-click selects the word, as expected.  A tripe-click selects the entire URL again.  And more quick-succession clicks keeps the entire URL selected.  The only way to get the selection to be at the cursor is to click once, or three or more times.  Then wait.  Then click once.