If you're typing in the Firefox address bar and alt-tab to a different window, then back, the entire text in the address bar is highlighted. This is extremely annoying to me. Is there a way to turn this behavior off? What I'd like to see is whatever I had when I left the application (e.g. either a selection or an insert point). My Firefox version is 3.5.3, if that matters. Thanks!
1 Answer
Modern answer:
My Linux systems no longer highight the Awesome bar contents when returning from Alt-Tab, so (for me) there's no need for this tweak of a config parameter that no longer exists.
For everyone else, apparently this will not be fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1849593
OLD ANSWER FROM 2009: From About:Config Tweaks For Firefox 3
(First type about:config in your location field)
- Enable/Disable Single Click to Select Whole URL in Address bar
To Enable Single Click Select URL of address bar use the below about:config Tweak
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True
To disable Single Click Select
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = False