Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3

May 27, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: okalex

When the user single-clicks in the address bar in Firefox 3 (currently at RC1 -- download | end user features), the default behavior is to select the entire contents of the address bar. The expected behavior for most other OS X browsers, including Firefox 2, is to insert the cursor at the click location. To restore Firefox 3 to sanity:

  1. Type about:config in the Address Bar and press Enter.
  2. If you get a message warning you about changing advanced settings, click "I'll be careful, I promise."
  3. Locate the preference named browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll and double-click it to change its value to false.
That's it. Firefox should be back to it's old behavior. Note that you can still double-click the Address Bar to select a word, and triple-click to select the entire URL.

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