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Change location bar click selects all

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prkos
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Currently when I click inside the Location Bar the entire string is selected/highlighted.

I don't want that, I want the old behavior where the first click positions the pointer at the place inside the string text where I clicked.

I have added these options (found in another Q):

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll false browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll true

But they don't seem to work.

I'm using Firefox 76.0.1 on Linux, and the option to combine Search and Location bar.

Currently when I click inside the Location Bar the entire string is selected/highlighted. I don't want that, I want the old behavior where the first click positions the pointer at the place inside the string text where I clicked. I have added these options (found in another Q): browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll false browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll true But they don't seem to work. I'm using Firefox 76.0.1 on Linux, and the option to combine Search and Location bar.

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cor-el
cor-el
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The two clickSelectsAll prefs are no longer supported in Firefox 75 and newer and you will have to get used to the new behavior.

  • Bug 1621570 - browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll=false has no effect since 75b1

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