Joshua Mullin Reporter
	Description • 15 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

There is a "feature" in Firefox where if you're entering a URL, then switch away from the Firefox window, then switch back, the entire URL in the location bar gets selected, whether there was a selection when you left the window or not. This causes issues when you're referring to another window to transcode a URL.

In my case, as a developer, if I'm looking for an item ID to pass to a GET variable and have to alter the URL that's already in the location bar, it gets frustrating when I select the ID I want to replace, refer to another window, then return only to have to re-place my cursor where it previously was.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Begin typing a URL into a Firefox window's location bar (or altering the URL that's already in the location bar). 
2. Leave the cursor at the end or middle of the URL being typed. This also applies if you make a selection of a portion of the URL in the location bar.
3. Switch away from the window (e.g. by using Command-Tab or by clicking away)
4. Switch back to the window (Command-Tab is fine again, or clicking)
5. Notice what happens to the selection you made (or your cursor position) when you switch back.

Actual Results:  
The entire URL is selected in the location bar, making it difficult to continue typing your URL from where you left off before the window switch.

Expected Results:  
The cursor would remain where I left it when I changed windows (e.g. at the end of the URL or somewhere in the middle of the URL). The selection I made prior to changing windows (if any) would stay intact.

This is a pretty vanilla installation of Firefox. There are a couple of plugins, but I've experienced this bug for many previous versions of the software. It's definitely an issue with the core product.

I can't think of a reason why this would be a feature that was implemented purposefully. I don't believe it adds usability to the application, so I'm approaching it as a bug. My apologies if it's a feature you've implemented on purpose, but I'd like you to re-examine the usability aspect of this "feature" if it is indeed intended behavior.

	Joshua Mullin Reporter
	Comment 1 • 15 years ago

Also confirmed to be the same issue with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7

and

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

So it's not an OSX-only bug.

	Joshua Mullin Reporter
	Comment 2 • 15 years ago

Updating the bug to indicate it's not OSX-specific.

	Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)
	Comment 3 • 15 years ago

Confirmed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

	Sunny [:darkowlzz]
	Comment 4 • 11 years ago

This bug is no longer valid.