88228 - Double-click on a word shouldn't select the space afterwards when in read-only mode

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Adam Lock]

When I double-click on a word in some browser or email content it should not 
select the space following the word. In circumstances where the text is 
read-only the user will more often than not just want to select the word and 
not include the space.

The reverse is true for editable areas such as text fields and the composer, 
where selecting the space is useful because makes it easier to do text cut and 
paste operations.

Comment 1

[doctor__j]

Dupe of bug 16352?

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

The other bug looks too all-encompassing. It might be better to make 
dependency between the other one and this one which is describing a very 
specific issue.

Comment 3

[mjudge]

this is a dup of an oooold bug. i will look for the dup

Comment 4

[mjudge]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16352 ***

Comment 5

[Terri Preston]

Verified Duplicate

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Duplicate was turned into bug 98546, which is fixed, but this isn't.

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** Bug 317344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Quoting from
[http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboard/proposal#II._Keyboard_Navigation_in_a_Block_of]:
"<ctrl+right> is more complicated - its behavior depends on a preferences
setting layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word.
It defaults to true on Windows, but false on Linux/Solaris/Mac."

While I must admit this is weird, this is consistent with how Windows works,
and is therefore a default setting in Firefox. If you wish to change this, open
about:config, search for layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word, and change
its value to false. This will stop the problem for you.

Marking INVALID, as this is not a bug but a "feature" thanks to Windows. :)