506186 - Difficult to highlight non-linked URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Greg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090723 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090723 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.2pre

Currently, it is difficult to highlight a non-linked URL for copying/dragging/etc.  For example, if you double click on a URL, firefox only highlights part of it, usually between the slashes or periods.  If you triple click a URL, firefox highlights the entire link AND the text around it.  Shouldn't there be an easy way to highlight a link without having to position the mouse and drag?  For example, change the triple-click functionality when the cursor is over a URL to highlight the entire URL instead of the entire paragraph?

Thank you,
Greg

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Search for something on google.com
2.Try double- and triple-clicking on the green URLs of the results 
3.Then click an drag over the entire URL - this is the only current way to grab the entire link
Actual Results:  
Double-clicking will result in only part of the URL selected while triple clicking will result in more than the URL selected.

Expected Results:  
Highlighting just the URL, nothing more or less.

Performed on Ubuntu 9.04, but I know the functionality is the same on other operating systems.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090720 Shiretoko/3.5.1pre

I just looked and there seems to be a pref for it: layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation
How to change the value see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

Does this solve your issue?

Comment 2

[Greg]

(In reply to comment #1)
Wow, that does make things a lot nicer.  Thank You!