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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 14:01:29
Message-Id: 20150517140118.GK9148@workstation.happypenguincomputers.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser by Paul Klos
1 On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote:
2 > Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe:
3 > > Hi all,
4 > > I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a
5 > > bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or
6 > > search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin
7 > > typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the
8 > > contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click
9 > > into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing
10 > > or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL.
11 > > If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string,
12 > > this can be quite a bit of text to delete.
13 > >
14 > > So my question, I suppose, is multipart:
15 > >
16 > > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour?
17 > >
18 > > 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour?
19 > >
20 > > 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long
21 > > URL's, such as a Google search results?
22 > >
23 > > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
24 > >
25 > > Andrew
26 > >
27 > Hi Andrew,
28 >
29 > You might be interested in these settings (from about:config):
30 >
31 > browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll
32 > browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll
33 >
34 > You can configure what happens when you click in the address bar.
35 >
36 > I have no idea why the defaults on win/linux are different, though,
37 >
38 > Cheers,
39 >
40 > Paul
41
42 Would be nice to have it for the Search bar, also. Maybe this bug:
43
44 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416037

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Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>