Closed Bug 786209 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

double/triple-click behaviour not working as expected (Linux)

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

14 Branch
x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rolands50, Unassigned)

Details

When clicking on a displayed URL in the URL-bar, the various click 'sequences' don't obey the expected settings.

This is how things should work (I believe!):

single-click = place the cursor at the location of the mouse-pointer, when clicked.

double-click = highlight the entire word (bounded by the full-stops ".") at the location of the mouse-pointer.

triple-click = highlight the entire contenst of the URL-bar

I have the following settings in about:config

browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll = false
browser.urlbar.clickAtEndSelects = false
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = false

I've tried various combinations of TRUE and FALSE for the above settings and cannot get it to work as expected.

In a similar FF 14.0.1 install on a Windows XP system, the various clicks in the URL bar behave as expected (above).
What's layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation set to?
That seems to have fixed it. In the Linux install, that parameter was set to FALSE, in the Windows XP install it was TRUE.

Now it behaves as expected. Pity it was so hard to locate a solution to this niggle elsewhere (despite Googling like crazy!).

Cheers,

Mike.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Resolution: WORKSFORME → INVALID

Hi,

I think this bug MUST be reopened, as in FF 77/78 the options listed above are not available anymore, thus the correct behaviour of mouse clicks under Linux is not reachable anymore. This is VERY annoying, as Linux has a VERY consistent interface, designed for the user to be efficient, by making ALL the (other) Apps behave as @Mike suggested.

Please provide a way for Linux users to recover the correct & efficient behaviour:

  • single-click = place the cursor at the location of the mouse-pointer, when clicked.
  • double-click = highlight the entire word (bounded by the full-stops ".") at the location of the mouse-pointer.
  • triple-click = highlight the entire content of the URL-bar

In the current settings, everything is fucked up:

  • Since first click selects everything, then only the clicks behave correctly, the user has to click 1 more time than in any other app
  • As the url is selected t first click, the user is misleaded to think it is copied in the Xorg buffer, when it is not, making mistakes almost the norm...
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