> How is that so different from "the best ever" is beyond me. "the best ever" implies it is the best.... ever. Inclusive of all competition. "the best firefox

> How is that so different from "the best ever" is beyond me. "the best ever" implies it is the best.... ever. Inclusive of all competition. "the best firefox has ever had" limits the comparison to just firefox. > What browser did you move to after you uninstalled Firefox because of the click in the URL thing? I made my own ui skin for chromium. I'm not terribly happy about using chromium but I couldn't figure out how to use the firefox engine for it - another strategic mistake by the incompetent buffoons at Mozilla not making this easy, and of course doing the whole browser myself is a big job (heck, even the UI skin is a big job, there's a LOT of things still on my todo list, but it minimally works without driving me absolutely nuts which is more than I can say about Firefox's recent versions). > To me it actually makes sense - I think most of the times when a user reaches the URL they want to put a new one, not to edit the existing one. This behavior makes that easier. Most the time I want a new one, I'll open a new tab and thus have a blank url. If I'm clicking on an existing url, it is because I want to edit it. But if I do want to replace it, the old double click behavior to select all made this utterly trivial too: single click to edit, double click to replace. Hell, they even used to have an about:config thing to make single click select all, but in their infinite wisdom, they removed even that hidden config option to turn it back off. With the new behavior, editing a url becomes quite frustrating. The work around is to click, wait until the double click time period elapses, then click again. Don't do it too soon though, or it will do the completely useless "select word" thing instead. If you click a third time, it will now select all again! Fourth click? Back to select word. You must wait for a while before you can just click to edit. Oh, and do you use middle click on X? That single click select all... does NOT assert the PRIMARY selection. But double and triple click do! So if you single click it, it looks selected... but it isn't. Double click out of old habit? Now it is wiped out. Ridiculous. So this change marginally benefits some users (who probably don't really care) while being devastatingly crippling to the people who do. Maybe some utilitarian function can say +1 usability point times 10 million users outweighs -1000 usability points to 1000 users. But I'm gonna go ahead and disagree. Mozilla is a niche product at this point, maybe they should start caring about the 1000 users they have left.