Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: > Hi all, > I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a > bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or > search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin > typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the > contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click > into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing > or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL. > If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string, > this can be quite a bit of text to delete. > > So my question, I suppose, is multipart: > > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? > > 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour? > > 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long > URL's, such as a Google search results? > > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > Hi Andrew,
You might be interested in these settings (from about:config): browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll You can configure what happens when you click in the address bar. I have no idea why the defaults on win/linux are different, though, Cheers, Paul
