532006 - Document how to revert to the pre-10.6 word-breaking algorithm "in" the location bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

People have been complaining about the new word-breaking algorithm in 10.6 "breaking" the way they're accustomed to selecting URL fragments in the location bar.  (Safari appears to have special-cased the old behavior of using . as a separator in the location bar and location bar only; other places displaying URLs in Safari still use the standard OS behavior, which is bizarrely inconsistent.)

Lisa very helpfully discovered that you can change the word-break behavior in the Language and Text prefs, so we should document this: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=8118075#p8118075

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

I noted this in the forum, but I'll add it here as well: from all the options offered - 'Japanese', 'Greek' or 'English (United States, Computer)' - only the last one does the trick.
I also tested this under a Japanese User Account. There the default is 'Japanese', with the same issue in the location bar. Switching to 'English (United States, Computer)' solves this, but I don't know yet what side effects this may have in other situations.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Given the current state of the Camino project, we won't be fixing these website bugs. Mass changing our Product Site bugs (search on "camino-website-bugs").

RESOLVED -> WONTFIX.