change selection behaviour of windows address bar

Question

Is there any way to change the behaviour of address bars in windows (especially in web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox) such that a single click will place the cursor, and a double click will select everything? Having recently returned to windows for work after many happy years of linux and mac usage, this is proving to be one of the more significant irritations.

Answer 1

In Firefox you can do the following.

1. Open firefox and type about:config in the addressbar and press Enter. It'll confirm, click on I'll be careful, I promise! button.

2. Now type SelectsAll in the Filter box. It'll show 2 entries:

   browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll

   browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll

   clickSelectsAll would be set to false and doubleClickSelectsAll would be set to true.

   

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You could also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + L(works in Firefox, Chrome and in the address bar of windows) to achieve this.