Issue 1311: Bad highlighting behavior for text boxes (switched single- and  
multi-line box behaviors?)
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1311

Comment #2 by mkterra:
I actually like the Omnibar's current selection behavior.  It's standard on  
Windows,
matching the behavior of Firefox and IE's address bars.  Whenever I run  
into the
behavior you describe on Safari, I always select the wrong half of the URL  
because I
reflexively drag left and slightly down.  It's the same problem I have with  
the
current single-line text box behavior.

The Safari behavior makes it trickier to select a segment in the middle of  
the line.
  You have to move perfectly horizontal, otherwise you end up selecting an  
entire half
of the URL.  (The issue is even more important for text boxes in web pages,  
where you
usually *don't* want to erase an entire half of the line you wrote.)  The  
current
Windows-standard behavior allows for more casual movements to get the  
selection you
want, and it's still simple to select an entire half just by "throwing"  
your pointer
across the screen.

Incidentally, both the About window and the Report Bug textbox have really  
weird
highlighting behavior. (The latter starts acting up once you have multiple  
lines of
text.)



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