Linux Neophyte

If you’re a recent Windows to Linux convert, you might find the default behavior in Firefox’s address bar a little annoying. In Windows, clicking into the address bar would select the entire URL, you could then just start typing to wipe out what’s there and enter a new address. I’ve found that the Linux Firefox defaults to just dropping your cursor into the address bar and you either need to double-click to select all or use some other method of clearing the address bar. If you’re more comfortable with the “click selects all” method do the following:

1. Open Firefox
2. Enter about:config into the address bar and hit Enter
   
3. In the Filter field enter the text clickselectsall
4. Double-click the preference name browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll entry (doing so will change the value to true)
5. Restart Firefox

That’s all folks, single clicking in the address bar now selects all.

Note: some distributions may have have this set for you, I can only tell you that Ubuntu and Fedora do not.

written by M@ \\ tags: Firefox