47469 - Double-clicking on first letter of a word selects previous word

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16352

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Adam Lock]

Run Mozilla and point it at any page (www.mozilla.org will do). Find two words 
in the same paragraph and double-click on the first letter of the second word. 
Both the first and second word are selected.

e.g.

Hello World
      ^ Double click on the 'W'

Comment 1

[Tomer Brisker]

Confirmed on Linux 2000080108 - Changing OS to all.

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

->Editor

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

reassigning to akk for now -- Akkana, were you working on this part of selection 
or should this go to Mike?

Comment 4

[Akkana Peck]

That's me, since I have another bug on word selection.

Comment 5

[kinmoz]

Moving to M19 as per [e-mail].

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

moving this out to future, this may result in a rewrite of word selection

Comment 7

[Akkana Peck]

Anthony is taking over selection bugs.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

sometimes when i doubleclick in the URL textfield, the selection goes from the
beginning of the field to where the cursor is --rather than the entire URL field
contents. [annoyingly inconsistent] akkana mentioned that this and bug 16352 are
prolly the cause of that.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

se: i think that's bug 16203, "double-click drag should do selection in "word-
by-word" mode".

isn't this bug a dup of bug 16352?

Comment 10

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 65856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16352 ***

Comment 12

[sujay]

verified

Comment 13

[Adam Lock]

I don't mind you duping this bug, just as long as it's noted that this is a
genuine bug while bug 16352 is talking about improving selection heuristics.