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Double-Click Highlight Error

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Alright, using Firefox version 27.0.1, hoping not to yet again get another version but rather the User Styles addon, I am experiencing yet another Firefox-fail. So there's a body or simply a line of text, I double click to highlight a certain portion, maybe even drag to highlight more, but now I'm getting MORE than I want.

The Double-Click Highlight function ought to be stopping either before the next word or the following punctuation. BUT NO! Example: Above the box I'm typing in now is the phrase "The more information you can provide, the better . . . ," then I double click the word "provide" (notice that there's a comma "," right after the word). Now if Firefox did it right, I ought to have ONLY the word "provide" highlighted, BUT NO, instead I get "provide, the" highlighted.

I need to get this fixed soon, preferably again without having to download yet another version of Firefox again.

Alright, using Firefox version 27.0.1, hoping not to yet again get another version but rather the User Styles addon, I am experiencing yet another Firefox-fail. So there's a body or simply a line of text, I double click to highlight a certain portion, maybe even drag to highlight more, but now I'm getting MORE than I want. The Double-Click Highlight function ought to be stopping either before the next word or the following punctuation. BUT NO! Example: Above the box I'm typing in now is the phrase "The more information you can provide, the better . . . ," then I double click the word "provide" (notice that there's a comma "," right after the word). Now if Firefox did it right, I ought to have ONLY the word "provide" highlighted, BUT NO, instead I get "provide, the" highlighted. I need to get this fixed soon, preferably again without having to download yet another version of Firefox again.

الحل المُختار

Do theses layout prefs on the about:config page still have the default value?

  • layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation
  • layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word
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الحل المُختار

Do theses layout prefs on the about:config page still have the default value?

  • layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation
  • layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word
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Both were read "false", so I'm switching both to "true." Seems to work just fine now, THANKS!

(or ought only one of them read "true" and the other "false"?)

Modified by Oahspe