How To Make the Address Bar NOT Select All in FireFox


	How To Make the Address Bar NOT Select All in FireFox

DarrenTooCool

10-7-2007 3:45 PM

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firefox, tweak, hack

DarrenTooCool says:

If you would rather Firefox not select all the text in the address bar when you type, then try this tweak!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7bd8321a-1d85-4f41-9ebe-7d9e6cffe74c/037D407C-5C5D-49DB-A760-A1FE7C7BC708/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/" href="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/" style="font-size: 11px;">paininthetech.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to Firefox address bar tweak" rel="bookmark" href="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/">Firefox address bar tweak</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/">Have you ever began typing in the URL bar in Firefox, switched applications, and came back to Firefox to resume typing? Did you notice the entire URL was then highlighted again?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paininthetech.com/img/462E962F-936D-4271-8753-57705306A67E" alt="Screenshot of Firefox address bar" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><P>By default, it seems Firefox automatically <STRONG>highlights</STRONG> the entire URL, when you switch focus back to it from another application.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><P>You can change this setting, but it’s not directly available in the Preferences menu. You have to use <STRONG>about:config</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><P>In the address bar, type <CODE>about:config</CODE>, then hit Enter.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paininthetech.com/img/03AB3991-C4D9-48E7-ADB2-5CF348E647FE" alt="Screenshot of Firefox address bar" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/">go to the <STRONG>Filter</STRONG> field, and type <CODE>urlbar</CODE>. This will narrow down your choices. You should see <CODE>browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll</CODE>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paininthetech.com/img/7AA16AC7-37A1-463D-ADCD-3FD6AA4BA6A4" alt="Screenshot of Firefox about:config panel" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><P>Notice it is currently set to <STRONG>true</STRONG>. We’ll change this to <STRONG>false</STRONG>. Right-click on that line, and select <STRONG>Toggle</STRONG>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paininthetech.com/img/05FDF891-47C2-45B4-9F56-E9F9448A9D32" alt="Screenshot of Firefox about:config panel" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><P>It should change the value to <STRONG>False</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paininthetech.com/2007/08/16/firefox-address-bar-tweak/"><P>That’s it! You’re done! You may have to restart Firefox for the change to take effect.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/037D407C-5C5D-49DB-A760-A1FE7C7BC708/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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