59997 - Pasting in the URL Bar should automatically overwrite text already in URLBar.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22400

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[lloy0076]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686)
BuildID:    Mozilla 17 to 18

One can use the third mouse button to copy and paste under X. Do this by
highlighting some text and then pressing the third buton in another window or
text box.

However, if there is an About:Blank in the text box already you either have to
highlight that, press delete and then highlight what you wanted. Or you have to
delete the About:Blank using the keyboard.

Clearly this is against a CLICK and DRAG methodology.

This piece of "Internet Explorer" compatibility - IE is the only other browser
I've seen that does this - is rather absurd in my opinion. Surely one can SEE if
the screen is BLANK!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight some text to copy (eg a URL from Netscape)
2. Switch to Mozilla
3. Deal with the about:blank

Actual Results:  See the description.

Expected Results:  Not displayed the "About:Blank".

I'm running XFree86-4.0.1 but it used to happen under 3.3.6 as well...under RH
6.2.

Comment 1

[Jason Eager]

I'm confused about what you think the bug is. From what I understand, you're
saying that if you paste something in the urlbar, it should automatically delete
what is already in the URL bar? Or are you saying that about:blank should never
be in the URL bar, even when that's the page that it loaded? I'm assuming the
first case, because the second case has an easy fix: Just start mozilla with the
URL as a command line option!

Changing summary to reflect the first case.

Comment 2

[lloy0076]

I use Netscape Messenger to handle some things, especially Java related pages.
However, the moment I think I can get away with using Mozilla (i.e. it won't
crash due to the infamous Java, Javascript and Linux issues) I like to paste the
URL into Mozilla.

Given that Mozilla takes at lest 15 seconds to load on my machine - and I'm
running a 650MHZ Athlon with 320MB of memory and a reasonably fast HD - I don't
particularly want to start it from command line with a URL every time.

Besides which, I can't get that to work but that doesn't bother me :-)

I still can't see any point at all in leaving "about:blank" in the URL bar.
Automatically replacing text already in the URL bar could possibly cause dramas
if you tab to the wrong mozilla window...

Possibly, rather than defining the page as "blank", why don't we change the
preference (in edit preferences navigator) to "when mozilla starts up display
NOTHING/NO PAGE AT ALL". That way it's clear that you are NOT loading ANY
page...and if one does load a page called "about:blank" it does appear.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Bug 22400 is already filed on the "about:blank" displaying as text in URL bar.
Seems it's about to get fixed now :)

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

dupe of bug 22400

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22400 ***

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

There is a related issue here, a potential would-be dup of 37587:
"Highlight /Select contents of URL bar upon focus"

There was some debate there, and it was set invalid. Perhaps it should be
reopened for reconsideration, since it has gained 8 dups since it was marked
invalid. Checking dups of dups would probably reveal it's a mostfreq.

Comment 6

[Hans Peter Groendal]

Verified, this is a duplicate of bug 22400 "`about:blank' shown in location bar
for blank page"