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[Dan-256 <50254@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to reopen a long dead, thread, but...ok, that's what I want to do.

It seems that this is broken on unix again.  Double clicking selects the
whole URL.  The default for:

browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll

on Unix, is true.  This means that double clicking doesn't stop at
punctuation, because it doesn't stop at all, it just selects the whole
URL.  So was this whole bug for nothing?

According to this wiki:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll

The behavior was changed to restore "double click selects all" on Unix.
But then, how can one double click to select a word?  In windows, the
default is different, meaning that double clicking to select a word
works.

The wiki states that it required "triple clicking" to select the URL.
In windows, single clicking selects the URL.  Should the same default be
considered for Unix?  Even if not, though, there should be a way to
select individual words in the URL.

Again, what was the point of having the "stops on punctuation" setting
if not to enable selection of "words"?

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Title:
  Ctrl-Backspace should stop_at_punctuation

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Fix Released
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

  In a typical GTK widget with a URL, pressing Ctrl-Backspace will erase
  up to the previous "/".  This does not operate as expected in Firefox.
  Pressing Ctrl-Backspace in the URL field erases the entire URL.

  To fix this, layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation should be set to
  true in the default configuration.  Firefox is then consistent with
  the rest of the desktop.

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