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The select-all Chrome-like behaviour is so horrible. It makes the two most useful interactions with the address bar much more difficult - putting the address in
by ubercow13 7y ago
The select-all Chrome-like behaviour is so horrible. It makes the two most useful interactions with the address bar much more difficult - putting the address into the primary buffer (on X11) so you can paste it somewhere else (this now requires a triple click), and putting the caret inside the address to edit the URL (which now requires clicking twice, but not double clicking because that is different, so you have to click with exactly the right pause inbetween, which is a horrible interaction).
What's extra annoying is that a single click will select the whole address but not put it in the primary buffer! Another UI convention broken.
All of this is to optimise for the most useless address bar interaction - clicking into it with the mouse and then changing to the keyboard to type a new URL, instead of just using ctrl+L. This is a feature made to optimise for people using the software (IMO) incorrectly.
- throwanem 7y agoThis behavior long predates Chrome and has been this way on other platforms IIRC since the browser was still called Phoenix, and probably inherited from Netscape at that; the change here brings Firefox's behavior on Linux in line with its behavior elsewhere. I can understand how the people who develop Firefox think that's a good idea, but not how they imagine anyone wanting it other than themselves...
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoEdge just overtook Firefox in market share, so the people who develop Firefox are practially a majority of the userbase at this point anyway. xDDDD ;w;
- dang 7y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
- em-bee 7y agoindeed, why do i care if firefox on my linux desktop behaves the same as firefox on someone elses windows desktop? sure, consistent behavior is good in many cases. (it drives me crazy that VLC on mac is different from elsewhere) but more important that crossplatform consistency is to follow the common UI behavior of your desktop environment. text selection on X11 (and wayland) is inherently different than text selection on windows. this breaks common expectations
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- Epskampie 7y agoCompletely disagree. I had to do a config tweak on every new FF install to make it behave like this new default. Love that I don't have to do that anymore. I don't think using the mouse to select the address bar is incorrect, it seem a very normal and logical thing to do to me.
- dan-robertson 7y agoThis chrome behaviour also drives me mad. At least they allow middle click on new tab button to open a new tab and browse to whatever is in the primary clipboard. I think I basically never replace the contents of a tab by entering something directly in the address bar. Usually I would just be opening a new tab and my reason to click the url bar is to primary-select its contents or to make a weird edit to the url. But presumably my use case isn’t so common