Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

[Paul Klos <gentoo@klos2day.nl>]

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