Not to reopen a long dead, thread, but...ok, that's what I want to do. It seems that this is broken on unix again. Double clicking selects the whole URL. The default for:
browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll on Unix, is true. This means that double clicking doesn't stop at punctuation, because it doesn't stop at all, it just selects the whole URL. So was this whole bug for nothing? According to this wiki: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll The behavior was changed to restore "double click selects all" on Unix. But then, how can one double click to select a word? In windows, the default is different, meaning that double clicking to select a word works. The wiki states that it required "triple clicking" to select the URL. In windows, single clicking selects the URL. Should the same default be considered for Unix? Even if not, though, there should be a way to select individual words in the URL. Again, what was the point of having the "stops on punctuation" setting if not to enable selection of "words"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50254 Title: Ctrl-Backspace should stop_at_punctuation Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox In a typical GTK widget with a URL, pressing Ctrl-Backspace will erase up to the previous "/". This does not operate as expected in Firefox. Pressing Ctrl-Backspace in the URL field erases the entire URL. To fix this, layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation should be set to true in the default configuration. Firefox is then consistent with the rest of the desktop. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/50254/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
