Feature changed by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Feature #308523, revision 5 Title: Firefox address bar should respect ctrl+backspace openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Richardson (alerich) Description: To achieve consistency with the rest of the desktop (KDE or GNOME, don't know about XFCE), layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation in about:config should be set to true by default. Discussion: #1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2010-10-26 13:35:45) I'm not sure where that is consistency. If I mark text with punctuation within gnome-terminal by double click I get the whole phrase and not only a part of it. The mentioned pref changes the whole user experience with double click for marking some text. We had the above setting at some point and someone raised a bug to change it. Apparently we should change the default with every openSUSE release? Just kidding. There are reasons to keep it as it is and there are reasons to change it. It's more or less easy for people to change it but I currently don't see enough arguments to change the default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308523

Feature changed by: matthias sweertvaegher (mxttie) Feature #308523, revision 7 Title: Firefox address bar should respect ctrl+backspace openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2010-11-08 16:49:16 reject reason: see comment #1. Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.4: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2010-11-08 16:49:18 reject reason: see comment #1. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Richardson (alerich) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To achieve consistency with the rest of the desktop (KDE or GNOME, don't know about XFCE), layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation in about:config should be set to true by default. Discussion: #1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2010-10-26 13:35:45) I'm not sure where that is consistency. If I mark text with punctuation within gnome-terminal by double click I get the whole phrase and not only a part of it. The mentioned pref changes the whole user experience with double click for marking some text. We had the above setting at some point and someone raised a bug to change it. Apparently we should change the default with every openSUSE release? Just kidding. There are reasons to keep it as it is and there are reasons to change it. It's more or less easy for people to change it but I currently don't see enough arguments to change the default. + #2: matthias sweertvaegher (mxttie) (2014-08-20 17:38:29) + the consistency is with respect to the rest of the desktop apps (i only + have experience with KDE apps), for example: - if i click in the + address field of dolphin and edit the path with ctrl+backspace, it will + not delete the entire path (like firefox does by default) but only the + last portion. - if i write some text in kwrite and i press + ctrl+backspace, only the last word will be deleted, not the whole text. + - the list goes on.. So when i click in the address bar of firefox and + press ctrl+backspace, I also expect it to delete only the last part in + the URL and not the whole URL. If I want to select the url, I will + press alt+d. I guess an extra factor for expecting this behavior is + that i'm used to have it work like that, even in firefox, because i + also have to use windows at work and there it works like that. For me + it was a reason to stop using firefox on linux because chrome did what + i expected. + In the meantime, mozilla has changed the behavior such that with the + option on, you can still select the full url just by doubleclicking (no + triple clicking required). So yes, I think it definitely makes as much + sense to set the layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation option to true + as to false. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308523