Bug: mouse selection scheme in url bar / PLEASE restore browser.urlbar.click* config!!!
Status: RESOLVED
Priority: --
Resolution: DUPLICATE
Created: 2020-05-28 11:43:10+00:00
Resolved: 2020-06-02 11:55:50+00:00

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

- Open a page (e.g. from bookmarks)
- Click the URL bar


Actual results:

The whole line/url is selected


Expected results:

1. This is not consistent with the Unix way of copy/pasting. *EVERY* unix program (apart FF) respect the following scheme:
   - 1 click : cursor is positioned where the click occurs
   - 2 clicks : the current word is selected
   - 3 clicks : whole line is selected
2. This is not consistent with the rest of the app : e.g. with DialogBoxes selection behaviour (e.g. Save), where the Unix selection scheme *is* respected
3. This messes up everything, as you have developed bad workarounds to circumvent the default Unix behaviour :
  - If I click the URL, everything is selected, which in Unix terms, means the content is put in the clipboard. But if I paste the content (middle click) somewhere the old clipboard content is pasted. Which means the initial content was not copied into the clipboard. Again this breaks unix copy/paste consistency. So this behaviour ALSO BREAKS the meaning of simple selection/middle click pasting of unix.
  - As a side note, if you would attempt to correct the previous behaviour and indeed copy the content into the clipboard when (abusedly) selecting the whole url on single click, then you would ALSO BREAK the unix copy/paste consistency. Indeed, if I would select a url (the unix way, with a simple mouse selection) e.g. within the content of a webpage tab, and wanted to open it in another tab (let's say an already opened one, reusing this tab, instead of a new one), then you would override the clipboard content I had selected and I would end up pasting the exact same url I was attempting to replace.

IN CONCLUSION, YOUR SELECT/COPY/PASTE SCHEME IS BROKEN IN ANY WAY UNDER UNICes.

There used to be configuration variables to revert this broken behaviour, but for some reason, they have been removed recently. (*)
PLEASE RESTORE THEM! (or change the default behaviour!)

The only way to work with your scheme under linux is either to use CTR-c/v or to quadruple click. This is very unproductive!
We are not using Windows because this is a shitty OS, please do not taint good OSes with bad UX decisions made by poor OS designers!
Otherwise don't be astonished if people (I included) turn to other software (there are plenty competitors w.r.t. browsing) and you'll loose again large "market" shares...

Just do a simple web search and you'll see how much people are annoyed by this behaviour... [hint: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=click%20firefox%20url%20selection => About 10,900,000 results]

(*) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1128139
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1168290
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/748394
https://www.askvg.com/hack-single-click-select-all-feature-in-mozilla-firefox-addressbar/
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=228930
http://ubuntuguide.net/one-click-to-select-all-in-ubuntu-firefox-address-bar
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/b8ob46/doubleclicking_in_the_address_bar_on_linux/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/51580/why-doesnt-chrome-or-firefox-auto-highlight-the-address-bar