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Setting SelectsAll to false does not what I had hoped

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kornelis
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Hi,

I need to modify the address in the address bar a lot, so I want to disable the feature that selects the whole address when I click in the address bar.

I hoped to disable it in about:config SelectsAll, setting that to false, but that doesn't work.

What should I do?

Thanks.

Hi, I need to modify the address in the address bar a lot, so I want to disable the feature that selects the whole address when I click in the address bar. I hoped to disable it in about:config SelectsAll, setting that to false, but that doesn't work. What should I do? Thanks.

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cor-el
cor-el
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The clickSelectsAll prefs are no longer supported in Firefox 75 and later.

  • Bug 1621570 - browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll=false has no effect since 75b1
  • Bug 333714 - browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll should default to true on all platforms

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)

kornelis
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Thanks for the feedback.