Comment #120 on issue 26140 by [email protected]: Chrome Linux single  
click does not select all
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26140

Single click selects all and doesn't replace the selection clipboard  
matches the
behavior that we (and Firefox) have for ctrl-L.  Arguably, it is also  
semi-intuitive
because you're not actually dragging to manually create a selection.   
Finally, it
optimizes the far-more-common case (replace URL) instead of optimizing for  
copying
the URL out.  Therefore my position would be to use this behavior and avoid  
the
option.

My impression was that we turned this behavior off as an experiment.  I  
then saw zero
discussion anywhere about the results.  If there was discussion where the  
relevant
Linux UI folks mutually agreed this behavior was bad, then we should leave  
the
behavior as click-to-place-cursor and drop the option.

There are other routes we have not discussed, including Linux-only bits of  
UI near/in
the omnibox to directly facilitate replacing or copying the URL (I  
understand
Safari/Mac has something like this), if people are really unsatisfied with  
simply
deciding on which route is best.

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