73078 - Tabbing into address bar (or any text input area) does not automatically select existing URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28583

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Keith Anderson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010321
BuildID:    2001032108

In all other browsers, tabbing into a field that already has text entered into
it will automatically select the contents of that field. Mozilla tabs the carat
to the end of the text instead. Most notable in the address bar when
<shift>-tabbing to type in a new URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type a URL to load a page.
2. Click (or tab) into document pane to shift focus
3. Shift-Tab to get back into address bar

Actual Results:  Carat is inserted at the end of the URL

Expected Results:  URL (or contents in general) should be selected

Granted, I can use the 'Select All' command to hilite the text in question, but
this is a deviation from standard behavior that irks me.

Comment 1

[Bradley Hart]

I'm confirming this, as this might be a nice enhancement. By the way, 
that's what this is, an enhancement. Mozilla never before demonstrated 
this action, and therefore nothing is broken. Making the above changes, 
and also reassinging to keyboard nav.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 28583, "Focusing text widget (except on click) should select widget
contents".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28583 ***