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New issue 18644 by [email protected]: Cursor behavior and text selection in the address bar is dumb http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18644 Chrome Version : 3.0.196.0-r22005 OS + version : Ubuntu window manager : Whatever comes with Gnome Chrome selects the entire URL when you click in the address bar. Firefox just puts the cursor wherever you clicked. I can see the merit of either of these, but there are a few things which could be much better. I often happen to have to "add" things at the end of an URL, e.g. an additional query parameter or maybe extend a path. If the current URL is longer than the address bar, then this requires a bit of extra work (i.e. mark the URL and then use the keys to go to the right etc.) If the URL is *shorter* than the address bar - i.e. if there is "white space" to the right of the URL, then I would like to just click into that white space and get a cursor at the end of the URL, without any text selection. Currently, what I get is a fully selected URL. If I wanted that, I would have clicked *on* the URL. What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Navigate to any page which does not have an excessively long URL. Something like www.google.com will do fine. 2. Click in the address bar *after* the URL, i.e. on the "white space" What is the expected result? The URL is not selected and the cursor is after the URL. What happens instead? The URL is selected. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
