Firefox Tip: Changing Default Browser URL Bar Behavior On Click

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July 1, 2008

Firefox Tip: Changing Default Browser URL Bar Behavior On Click

A few months ago when I started using FF3 beta I was being driven mad by the default behavior of the browser when you clicked on the url in the address bar, a single click would highlight the entire url. Typically I click on the url with the intention of appending the url with something like "admin/build/views" and the entire url would get wiped out. Well, Owen heard my plight and taught me out to change this behavior: Visit about:config in the browser, filter for "browser.urlbar" and click on "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" to change the behavior for single click from value=true to value=false. You may also want to change "browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll" from false to true. Thanks Owen!

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Great tip thanks, I was also annoyed by the behaviour.

Great tip, thank you. It's amazing how many little changes escape my conscious notice but all conspire together to make me dislike new versions of software!
Nice! Thanks. :D