[Bug 1888942] Re: marked url in firefox by using one click isn't copied to clipboard, only with a triple mouse-click

Tue Aug 25 15:50:36 UTC 2020

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On 2020-07-16T08:09:28+00:00 Github-tbart wrote:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using Firefox 78.0.2 on Linux/X11:
1.  Visit a URL by entering it into the location bar and pressing return
2. Click into the location bar once or press Ctrl+L; the URL gets highlighted
3. Middle click into any text area (inside firefox or some other window/application)

Actual results:

URL does not get pasted.

Expected results:

URL should be in PRIMARY as soon as it gets highlighted and be able to
be pasted somewhere else.

This bug has been introduced only shortly before my current 78.0.2 as I
regularly use this procedure to paste URLs into mails and constantly end
up not pasting what I want.

I don't know how others feel, but I miss the triple-click to select which is the standard in any other application (or even within text areas inside firefox)! This is a real break in usability standards.
With the current way of automatic full selection of the URL by the first click, I also cannot select parts of the URL (which I have to do all the time because of unnecessary sessionid, tracking and whatnot parameters in today's urls) without clicking a second time, which is also completely uncommon to any selectable text.

clipboard.autocopy is set (untouched).
The description of http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clipboard.autocopy is also wrong now with the current behavior.

If this is a feature and not a bug, please make it configurable (and I'd
suggest to make the standard of a whole desktop environment the standard
and not this way that breaks the standard). If you do not agree please
at least make it configurable and leave the "feature" the standard.

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On 2020-07-16T08:17:47+00:00 Release-mgmt-account-bot wrote:

[Bugbug](https://github.com/mozilla/bugbug/) thinks this bug should
belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of
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On 2020-07-21T08:36:58+00:00 Mak-g wrote:

For how much it may look confusing (it is definitely a shift in behavior
and habits), this is the expected behavior currently. Clicking on the
urlbar focuses and selects its contents, but because the selection is
programmatic we don't override the primary selection, that is because
maybe you are selecting the urlbar to paste something, and we don't want
to overwrite that.

triple-click should work correctly if you start from an unfocused urlbar (please let us know otherwise), or it's bug 1633203 (allow to re-select). Would fixing that bug help?
You can also drag select starting from the unfocused urlbar.

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On 2020-08-04T10:06:05+00:00 Github-tbart wrote:

Using 79.0 now things have improved a lot.
Triple clicking works again, partial selection of URLs also works again.

Ctrl-A still does not work, Ctrl-L also does not work.

Still, (and the linked bug also shows other people feel like this) I
think breaking a well established behavior that is common across
thousands of other applications is a regression.

The intended functionality (at least I think that has been the
motivation behind this change) of only having to click once into the
location bar and being able to type a new URL would not be hindered by
adhering to the established standard of copying selected text into
PRIMARY.

You mention you don't want to override possibly existing clipboard contents.
I don't think anyone uses the PRIMARY to paste URLs into address bars (or has done so before) as it involves/involved selecting (parts of) the URL anyway. That's what CLIPBOARD is for. (And no, I am not asking for overwriting the CLIPBOARD contents upon selection!)

Apart from that, I'd rather introduce a new button/shortcut/etc for a
new functionality (clear and focus) instead of breaking standards

Input from a few other users would help, I think.

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On 2020-08-04T12:11:39+00:00 Release-mgmt-account-bot wrote:

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On 2020-08-07T04:49:47+00:00 Adw-mozilla wrote:

*** Bug 1656045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2020-08-21T02:25:46+00:00 Adw-mozilla wrote:

*** Bug 1659347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2020-08-21T05:22:56+00:00 Crxssi wrote:

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] (OoO 09-23 Aug) from comment #2)
> For how much it may look confusing (it is definitely a shift in behavior and habits), this is the expected behavior currently. Clicking on the urlbar focuses and selects its contents, but because the selection is programmatic we don't override the primary selection, that is because maybe you are selecting the urlbar to paste something, and we don't want to overwrite that.

That is a good point that I had not considered, primarily because I
don't typically do that.  I usually open a new (blank) tab, then paste
into an empty Firefox URL bar, or I paste by middle-clicking in the main
Firefox window to paste the X11 buffer.  Interestingly, now it seems
that pasting a URL into the main Firefox window (the display area of the
website) doesn't work anymore, it is just ignored- is this yet another
behavior change or bug?  (If so, is there already a bug report on that?)

Of course, my entire copy/paste/select workflow has been greatly
disrupted by both this new "1 click selects all" and "auto select all
doesn't copy to X11 buffer" in the URL bar (and search bar), because
nothing else works like that in Linux.  Nothing else does that in
Firefox, either (except maybe "save as" dialogs where the entire
proposed filename is pre-selected).  I am trying to keep an open mind,
but I really do hate these changes and the fact that there is no
preference/setting to revert it to act like it did before.

> triple-click should work correctly if you start from an unfocused
urlbar (please let us know otherwise), or it's bug 1633203 (allow to re-
select).

Currently I am using 78.0.1 and when I triple-click the unfocused URL
bar, it is, indeed, copying the URL into the X11 buffer (which I can
then middle-click into another program to paste).  It also works if I
focus the URL bar first and then triple-click.  Note, I do have
browser.urlbar.disableExtendForTests set to True because I dislike all
the changes in the URL bar, and that reverts some of it (the "zoom"
thing and the forced drop-down) but I tested the above with it set to
False and the behavior was the same.

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