I am currently running version 119.

Sometime recently the URL bar behavior changed. Consider this sequence
of events:

1. Open a new tab
2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
3. A page loads from the default search engine
4. Click on the URL bar again with the intent to copy the URL

What used to happen is the entire current URL used to be selected, ready
to copy. What happens now is the current URL is replaced with the search
term from step 2.

I do not like this change and would like to know how to disable it.

"ahwahnee hotel !w" is not a useful thing to copy and share.

I can see that there may be people who find editing their recent search
useful, but that is not me.

(Relatedly, making the URL itself easier to edit would be useful for me.
I often do things like copy URL parameters fron one tab to another,
things like time spans in Grafana pages.)

Elijah
------
did just look up the Ahwahnee but no !w, just wanyed a spell check

Eli the Bearded wrote:

> Consider this sequence of events:
>
> 1. Open a new tab
> 2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
> 3. A page loads from the default search engine
> 4. Click on the URL bar again with the intent to copy the URL
>
> What used to happen is the entire current URL used to be selected, ready
> to copy.

That's still what happens here
(v119.0.1 on Win11 but I doubt that's significant).

On 16/11/2023 16:24, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> I am currently running version 119.
>
> Sometime recently the URL bar behavior changed. Consider this sequence
> of events:
>
> 1. Open a new tab
> 2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
> 3. A page loads from the default search engine
> 4. Click on the URL bar again with the intent to copy the URL
>
> What used to happen is the entire current URL used to be selected, ready
> to copy. What happens now is the current URL is replaced with the search
> term from step 2.
>
> I do not like this change and would like to know how to disable it.
>
> "ahwahnee hotel !w" is not a useful thing to copy and share.
>
> I can see that there may be people who find editing their recent search
> useful, but that is not me.
>
> (Relatedly, making the URL itself easier to edit would be useful for me.
> I often do things like copy URL parameters fron one tab to another,
> things like time spans in Grafana pages.)
>

Win11Pro, FF 119.0.1 (64-bit), that's not quite what I get, no page is
loaded, and when I click in the URL bar the link is deselected, but not
replaced.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:24:59 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded
<*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

>I am currently running version 119.
>
>Sometime recently the URL bar behavior changed. Consider this sequence
>of events:
>
>1. Open a new tab
>2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
>3. A page loads from the default search engine

A *page* loads? For me on v119.0.1 with Win 11, a dropdown with any
items in my history which involve the search term appears, along with
several search engine entries. If one of my history responses is
selected, then the whole tab displays that site.

>4. Click on the URL bar again with the intent to copy the URL
>
>What used to happen is the entire current URL used to be selected, ready
>to copy.

And still does for me.

>What happens now is the current URL is replaced with the search
>term from step 2.

I can't replicate that.

Nobody wrote:

> Eli the Bearded wrote
>
>> 1. Open a new tab
>> 2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
>> 3. A page loads from the default search engine
>
> A *page* loads?

I think there's an implied step
2a. press enter (or click the goto arrow)

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:47:04 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

>Nobody wrote:
>
>> Eli the Bearded wrote
>>
>>> 1. Open a new tab
>>> 2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
>>> 3. A page loads from the default search engine
>>
>> A *page* loads?
>
>I think there's an implied step
>2a. press enter (or click the goto arrow)

Hmm.

Either my way or that hi-way, no matter what website's url is
proclaimed, the link is maintained and thus available for copying.

I simply cannot cause a *page* to load; the result is just a
*pulldown* within Step 2's answer.

On 2023-11-16 00:24, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> I am currently running version 119.
>
> Sometime recently the URL bar behavior changed. Consider this sequence
> of events:
>
> 1. Open a new tab
> 2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
> 3. A page loads from the default search engine
> 4. Click on the URL bar again with the intent to copy the URL
>
> What used to happen is the entire current URL used to be selected, ready
> to copy. What happens now is the current URL is replaced with the search
> term from step 2.

Mozilla announced this change, maybe I read about it on gHacks, I
remember testing for it when I read about it. However, it's not doing it
for me, I click and the url remains there ready for copy/paste. There's
probably a preference for this but I do not know what it is.

Regards,

--
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! (o o) Member:David-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society
oO-( )-Oo Half the people you know are below average.

Nobody wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Nobody wrote:
>>
>>> A *page* loads?
>>
>> I think there's an implied step
>> 2a. press enter (or click the goto arrow)
>
> Either my way or that hi-way, no matter what website's url is
> proclaimed, the link is maintained and thus available for copying.
>
> I simply cannot cause a *page* to load; the result is just a
> *pulldown* within Step 2's answer.

I mean the search engine's *page* of results, and that is the URL
available for copying if I re-enter the urlbar.

On 11/16/23 10:47, Andy Burns wrote:
> Nobody wrote:
>
>> Eli the Bearded wrote
>>
>>> 1. Open a new tab
>>> 2. Click on the URL bar and type a search term
>>> 3. A page loads from the default search engine
>>
>> A *page* loads?
>
> I think there's an implied step
> 2a. press enter (or click the goto arrow)

I use the say:

enter "text"

for

type "text" and press 'enter'.

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Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:

>. . .

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