621313 - When a word is double-clicked not only the word is selected but also a space is selected

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 423859

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Ilhan Yumer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101224 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: latest nightly Minefield on december 24 (time zone: 2)

When a word is double-clicked not only the word is selected but also a space is selected

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click to this word.
Actual Results:  
"this " is selected

Expected Results:  
only "this" should be selected

every time i have to delete the space, very unnecessary and boring and thus not user-friendly

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

not a bug.

set layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word to false.

Comment 2

[Ilhan Yumer]

why not a bug?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Because apparently this is expected behavior on Windows.  If you look at http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js the preference is set to false on all operating systems by default _except_ Windows and OS/2.  Last I checked, this was the default Windows double-click word selection behavior.

Comment 4

[Ilhan Yumer]

ok thanks, i found this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423859