70578 - Doubleclicking a word in URLbar selects entire URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 79409

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Gregor Rosenauer]

I know this is the intended behaviour, but normally, doubleclicking a word
should select the *word* only.
I would like to configure Mozilla sothat it acts according to this UI-standard.

For selecting the entire URL, I'd simply hit Ctrl+A or triple-click. 

So this is not really  a bug IMO, but a misfeature ;-)

Note: I have set pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll",false); but what I want
is that even on a doubleclick, only the word should be selected.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Would also be nice to have this double/triple click behavior on Linux, where it
is also standard.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

er.... right now double-click selects to the nearest whitespace on both sides in
the urlbar under Linux, which is correct.  Ignore my Linux comment.  :)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't see this problem on Win98, at least using Mozilla's strange definition 
of a "word" as anything not containing spaces (bug 16352, mostfreq).

Comment 4

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

->BeOS

Comment 5

[Christian "betzi" Hoffmann]

why is this marked as a beos bug (or feature request?) it works fine under beos
(even the triple click), when words are sepeated by whitespace (not really
common for urls, i know), but the same problem exists on windows too. 

So why  not moving this bug somewhere else?

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79409 ***

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

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