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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: connorp on May 27, '08 09:52:11AM

I may get hated on, but I love this functionality of clicking in the address bar and it automatically gets highlighted. In fact, does anyone know how to turn this functionality ON in Safari/WebKit?

Thanks

Connor



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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: ddemeo on May 27, '08 09:56:59AM

I'm with you. I hate have to triple-click or use Command-L to select the URL. I hope Firefox doesn't "fix" this, and Safari actually does the same in their next release.



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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: Mr. H on May 27, '08 04:35:20PM

You don't have to triple-click or use a keyboard shortcut. Just click the proxy icon (the icon immediately to the left of the URL text) and the whole URL will be selected. Such functionality gives "the best of both worlds": you can insert the cursor or select the whole URL each with a single mouse click.



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Proxy icon behavior has changed in FF3
Authored by: dzurn on May 30, '08 12:32:15PM

Unfortunately, the behavior when clicking on the proxy icon has ALSO changed in FF3. Now a click shows an identity info popup for the website instead of selecting the location.

So now to type in a new URL I have to either hit Cmd-L or single-click on the location bar, instead of aiming for the proxy icon as in FF2.

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Madness takes its toll.
Please have exact change.



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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: astrosmash on May 27, '08 12:18:09PM

In Safari, click the proxy icon (to the left of the url) to select all text.



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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: teacy123 on May 27, '08 03:07:14PM

I am not going to hate you. In fact I love this behavior of IE and FF3 so much (I rarely ever want to edit part of a URL, but rather replace 1 URL with an entirely different one), that I filed an enhancement request with Apple a while ago. Haven't heard a reaction yet.



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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: Mr. H on May 27, '08 04:37:01PM

You probably won't ever hear from Apple on that one as you can already select the URL with just one mouse click - click on the proxy icon next to the URL text. Ta-da!



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Disable single-click URL selection in Firefox 3
Authored by: pinkylbh3 on May 27, '08 03:49:10PM

Connor, I'm with you! I've had Firefox set up like this ever since I found out how to do it.

When I click in the address bar, I'm generally about to go somewhere new, so I prefer the content to be selected for immediate deletion.

Eddie



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