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On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote: |
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> Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a |
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> > bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or |
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> > search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin |
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> > typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the |
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> > contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click |
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> > into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing |
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> > or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL. |
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> > If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string, |
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> > this can be quite a bit of text to delete. |
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> > So my question, I suppose, is multipart: |
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> > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? |
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> > 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour? |
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> > 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long |
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> > URL's, such as a Google search results? |
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> > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, |
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> > Andrew |
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> Hi Andrew, |
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> You might be interested in these settings (from about:config): |
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> browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll |
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> browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll |
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> You can configure what happens when you click in the address bar. |
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> I have no idea why the defaults on win/linux are different, though, |
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> Cheers, |
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> Paul |
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Would be nice to have it for the Search bar, also. Maybe this bug: |
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416037 |