Closed Bug 220005 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Text selection in address bar or "add to bookmark" dialog does not behave naturally (for me, IE user)

Categories

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87410

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: hyatt)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 I just tried FireBird today and the first thing that shocked me is that when you try to 'select' an already selected text in the URL bar or the 'Add to bookmark' dialog, firebird goes into drag&drop mode instead of 'reselect' mode. To reselect I have to click first (click down then up) and then select. That's two clicks more than under IE and it's really annoying as, of course, the first thing i do when opening a browser is to reselect the URL just after the "www." to enter the URL that interests me. Also really annoying in the "Add to bookmark" dialog: I usually shorten the name of the bookmark by selecting over the old selection... I can see why the drag&drop mode is useful for the address bar (to do a quick bookmark in the "bookmark toolbar"), but in the "Add to bookmark" dialog???? I know it doesn't sound like a real deal but when you are accustomated to a behavior, it's hard and painful to change... I know I will keep IE for now... Acceptable solution: An "IE style" option in the preferences that would copy the behavior of IE, or remove the "selected on getfocus" behavior of the input field (but that would also break an expected behavior) If solution 1: maybe allowing drag and drop on at least the little 'blank page' icon that is on the left of the URL... Hope somebody has time to do this... I really like firebird but this thing keeps bothering me and hurts my surf speed... Thanks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Goto any page 2. Click on the url in the address bar (=> gets selected) 3. Try to select a part of the url without first clicking to deselect 4. Doesn't work 5. Wonder about how many clicks it takes to get what you want done 6. Wonder what would be the use of drag&drop in the "Add to bookmark" dialog Actual Results: Drag&drop (See 'details', sorry i wrote everything in that box) Expected Results: Select text (Like IE)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87410 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
QA Contact: bugzilla → toolbars
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