+1 Clobbering the primary selection when clicking in the url bar is
@#$ annoying and very un-Linux like.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 14:02, JT Olds<jto...@xnet5.com> wrote:
>
> Firefox on Linux doesn't. Wasn't one of the main goals to make the
> application feel native to the operating system? I could care less
> about Windows or OSX focus and selection behavior.
>
> None of the below Linux browsers select the entire URL on the first click:
> Firefox
> Epiphany
> Seamonkey
> Galeon
> Midori
> Konqueror
> Dillo
>
> In fact, I can't find a single browser that does what you claim on Linux.
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Peter Kasting<pkast...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, JT Olds<jto...@xnet5.com> wrote:
>>> > 1) on a single click to the omnibox, the cursor should be placed. The
>>> > contents of the omnibox should not be selected.
>>>
>>> We violate this convention on Windows too.
>>
>> Yep, and so does every other browser in the universe. There's a convention
>> that a single click in a browser's address bar selects all, so to speak.
>> PK
>
> >
>
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