From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14masq i686; Nav) BuildID: 2000030316 The URL at the top of the browser is very hard to select. The only way that I can seem to do it is by selecting the URL backwards. When I try to select it from the front if the URL extends beyond the length of the little window the doesn't scroll forward to allow me to get all the URL. However if I do it from the back to the front autoscrolling does work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Pick a page with a URL that is longer than the little window at the top of the browser. Try to hilight select it from front to back. (It won't scroll forward). Try to hilight select it from the back to the front. It will work.

A similar bug exists in the Windows version, Build ID: 2000040308. However, behavior is more consistent: back to front selection doesn't work either. One can, howver, use SHIFT+[Arrow Keys], which works as expected. Alternative steps to reproduce: 1. Resize browser window until URL doesn't fit in location bar. 2. Attempt selection.

asadotzler@netscape.net (Asa Dotzler) taking ownership of Browser General bugs. New QA Contact is jelwell@singleclick.com (Joseph Elwell). Sorry for the spam.

confirming, anc changing component to selection. This is also a widget issue, though, so maybe that's where it should be. In any event, this is by no means confined to the urlbar, it's basically the fact that we don't scroll in response too a drag-select ever, while most programs would.

Confirmed with the 2000-04-04-13-M15 nightly binary on WinNT. This does also affect <INPUT type="text"> form controls, as puetzk@iastate.edu states. This looks very similar to, but more severe than, bug 30457, "URL bar doesn't scroll when URL text click-dragged first time" - the selection does not extend, period, with today's build. Probably best to make it a DUP of this bug report, but not completely certain. This works as expected in the M14 binary for Win32.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30609 ***

setting milestone, this needs to be verified

Verified duplicate. (And fixed --- can't reproduce this on today's Linux build.)