62023 - need frontend UI pref for controlling browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement, P3)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

summary sez it all. we should have, say, a checkbox that the user can set so
that a single click in the URL textfield will select its entire contents. at
present, the pref browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll is set to false in
defaults/pref/all.js.

now the tricky part is, which pref panel should this go in? i'd say Navigator,
but that one is woefully crowded. other suggestions?

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

Agreed that the Navigator pane would be the most appropriate, and also that it's
too crowded already.

Could we possibly split off a Navigator|UI (or Window or some similar word)
pane which could have Toolbars and URLbar selection (and maybe some other UI-ish
thing if it comes up)?  The Toolbars item doesn't seem to fit with the two
questions about home page as it is.

I suppose it could go in History since that's sort of related to the urlbar, but
users probably wouldn't think to look there.

Or it could go in Advanced, though that's not entirely appropriate since it's a
browser-window-only feature.

Adding Chris since he's spent some time looking at how to split up our too-large
pref panes.

Comment 2

[anthonyd]

setting to mozilla 0.9

anthony

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

I don't think something like this warrants UI in the prefs.  We need to start 
making decisions one way or another on issues like this.  Yes, whatever we 
decide is sure to upset one group of people.  But we can't just pref everything.

Comment 4

[Chris McAfee]

This is usually a platform thing, we should put the
right preference in platform pref files as needed.
e.g. turn it on by default, turn it off for unix people,
something like that.

Comment 5

[anthonyd]

moving this to future till it all gets sorted out, then we can move it back in 
for reconsideration.

anthonyd

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 62496 now tracks some problems that come up when 
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll is enabled.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

I agree with Blake.  I don't think this needs to be a user-visible pref.

Comment 8

[rubydoo123]

--> mjudge

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

I don't know why this is assigned to mjudge, it's an xpapps thing.  Marking 
wontfix because I don't think we should expose this in the UI, but if we're not 
doing the most common behavior on any platform, feel free to file a bug...

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okay

Comment 11

[Olav Vitters]

*** Bug 132804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 156560 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***