89687 - URL Bar: New drag & drop text behavior is confusing and annoying

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87410

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[mdimitrio]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010704
BuildID: 2001070404

1. Load any URL. http://www.cnet.com
2. Click the document to make sure the focus is not on the Location Bar anymore.
3. Now, what you want to do is, using your mouse, select 'cnet.com' to be able
to replace it with 'cnn.com'. Note: you have to do this with two clicks only,
that's all the clicks you need in every other browser I know, including NS4 of
course.

One click will set the focus to Location Bar, the second click you'll position
your mouse between the '.' and the 'c', then click and hold until you selected
'cnet.com'. But if you try to do exactly as explained, you'll see that Mozilla
will try to drag and drop the entire URL. That's really not the expected
behavior for this action. It's acceptable in input fields within pages, but not
in the URL Bar, IMO.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

I guess bug 62495 and bug 87410 cover this.

Comment 2

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87410 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.