When you double click it selects a word (triple selects a line), but as soon as you move the mouse it switches to character selection.

I can't reproduce this with build ID 2000-090206. I can double-click to select word, and selection does not go away. Many places i can't select a line by triple-clicking, but that's another matter. Reporter: Which build are you using?

The selection doesn't go away, it just begins selecting one char at a time (as if you only single clicked) as soon as you start moving the mouse. I'm using build Gecko/20000822

Oh, I think I've seen this before ... ... Yep. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16203 ***

Verified dupe of bug 16203: double-click drag should do selection in "word-by-word" mode