Ubuntu
firefox package

ctrl + backpace does not erase highlighted text

Bug #63012 reported by Vladimír Lapáček
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Rolf Leggewie

Bug Description

I am using the latest Edgy. If I get in the url bar using the ctrl + l and hit ctrl + backspace the text does not get deleted. Only the cursor gets to the first position of the selected text. The same applies for whole firefox not only the url bar.

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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Do you possibly use any third-party extensions? I cannot reproduce your problem on my Edgy install - when I press ctrl+backspace it deletes the whole address in the URL bar.

Changed in firefox:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote :

After a fruitful discussion on IRC, we came up with the following observations:

Firefox behaviour after pressing ctrl+backspace is different from what you see in other GNOME applications. Here are the differences:

1. If you select some text from left to right and press ctrl+backspace, it should remove the parts of the string word by word. Firefox does something different - it removes all the highlighted words, except the last one, so: 'one two three' becomes: 'three'.

2. If you select some text from right to left and press ctrl+backspace, it should remove everything before the selection, word by word. Firefox removes the highlighted word and the one before it, so 'one two three' with 'three' selected becomes: 'one '

Please also keep in mind that in GNOME, words can be separated not only with white-space characters, but also with '/' and possibly some more characters.

I think that we should try make Firefox as much GNOME-compliant as possible, but I'm don't know if the ctrl+bs behaviour is defined in GTK, GNOME or Ubuntu itself, so I refrained from forwarding this bug upstream.

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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x (xk2c-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Vladimír Lapáček:

enter in FF urlbar: about:config

Then enter in search bar: urlbar

set: browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll to true.

From now on, when enter urlbar with CTRL+l it will highlight the whole address and you can just type the new one, it will immediately overwrite the old one.

No need to delete any address anymore. ;)

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Hi, your original report was against the edgy distribution. I was
wondering if you are still experiencing this issue. edgy support is
being end-of-lifed.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu610end-of-life

FWIW, my hardy Firefox behaves the way you seem to suggest.

Changed in firefox:
assignee: desktop-bugs → r0lf
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information
asked for. Thanks!

Changed in firefox:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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