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[David Walker <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This is a weird one to describe.  Generally, when selecting text with a
mouse, you click where you want to click.  Then if you drag the mouse
up, the text to the left (in left-to-right language) gets selected up
until the point of the cursor on the line(s) above.  The opposite
happens when you click and drag down, text to the right becomes selected
until the cursor on the lines below.  I have attached a video of the URL
bar difference between Firefox, and Chromium wherein the former, you
select mid URL and can drag up to select all text to the left, and down
to select all text right.  Chromium as of 14.04 has been acting
different, wherein, the text is selected only as far left, or right the
curser is dragged, totally ignoring the vertical motion.


Expected Behavior:
I would expect the URL bar in Chromium to adhere more strictly to the common practice of selecting until end of line when mouse cursor is moved vertically in the correct direction.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu1~pkg1065
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 24 10:26:47 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-29 (55 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (0 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]

** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages utopic

** Attachment added: "video of different behavior"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385314/+attachment/4243672/+files/IMG_0464.MOV

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Title:
  Text select in URL bar doesn't respect mouse select up, or down

Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a weird one to describe.  Generally, when selecting text with
  a mouse, you click where you want to click.  Then if you drag the
  mouse up, the text to the left (in left-to-right language) gets
  selected up until the point of the cursor on the line(s) above.  The
  opposite happens when you click and drag down, text to the right
  becomes selected until the cursor on the lines below.  I have attached
  a video of the URL bar difference between Firefox, and Chromium
  wherein the former, you select mid URL and can drag up to select all
  text to the left, and down to select all text right.  Chromium as of
  14.04 has been acting different, wherein, the text is selected only as
  far left, or right the curser is dragged, totally ignoring the
  vertical motion.

  
  Expected Behavior:
  I would expect the URL bar in Chromium to adhere more strictly to the common practice of selecting until end of line when mouse cursor is moved vertically in the correct direction.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu1~pkg1065
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Oct 24 10:26:47 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-29 (55 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (0 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]

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