Am 17.05.2015 um 11:39 schrieb Paul Klos:
> 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
>
>
>
maybe because in linux selecting = copying. So if you select with a
simple click you might overwrite the contents of the clipboard = highly
annoying.
