On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote: > 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
Would be nice to have it for the Search bar, also. Maybe this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416037
