Each of these bugs happens only the first time the location bar is used after the mozilla browser is opened. First bug: if the mouse is moved out of the location bar while selecting, selection will stop until the mouse is moved back onto the location bar. (This can be annoying when trying to select the whole URL of the home page in order to type a new one in, which I do by dragging from the blank area to the right of the URL to an area left of the location bar. Even if I don't move my mouse out of the vertical range of the location bar, I can miss the first few characters of the URL if my mouse is moving too fast.) Second bug: if the mouse is moved out of the location bar while selecting, but the mouse button is lifted before the cursor returns to the location bar, the selection will keep changing even though the mouse button is no longer depressedd.

Thanks, but please limit yourself to one bug per bug report. The text field you're having problems with is the Editor. changing component, reassigning.

Another thing that happens only the first time you try to select from the location bar: if the cursor moves over a chrome button (search, reload, etc) while selecting, the button lights up.

On 2000 032309, I now get both parts of this bug all of the time, as opposed to only the first time I use the URL bar. The first part of this bug is a duplicate of bug 30482. The first-use-only thing isn't dead yet, though: if the mouse moves over a toolbar button (such as reload) while you're trying to select text in the URL bar for the first time since opening the browser, the button lights up.

assigning to mjudge and setting to M16 along with other selection issues

Bug 30457 and bug 35184 are both similar in that they involve a major state change after the location bar is first used. Bug 35184 involved drag-and-drop into the location bar and bug 30457 involves forcing the textbox to scroll while selecting text. In all three cases, the correct behavior occurs AFTER the location bar has been used at least once.

Fixed in bug 35184 by brade. This gets a "fixed" because we know why it works now.

vrfy fixed in new win98 build