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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 865115
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Closed: Sep 6
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Double-clicking in the address bar, text jumps sideways

Reported by clon...@yahoo.com.au, Sep 6 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open any page
2. Double-click on a word in the address bar and drag slightly

What is the expected behavior?
The text will be selected, ready to be overwritten with different text. Double-click-dragging should allow selecting large parts of the URL.

What went wrong?
The URL jumps to the right and much more text than intended is selected.

Did this work before? Yes 68.0.3440.106

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.81  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

This is incredibly moronic design. Things moving AS you click on them?? WTF. Chrome was fantastic up until version 69. I don't want to be more insulting than I already have but I genuinely feel like none of your designers actually tried to use the version, because if they had they would have realised that they're going against one of the most obvious UI design rules: don't move elements around while the user is clicking on them!

As it is, it takes 2 slow clicks to even get into "editing mode" and THEN the double-click. That's insane.

Comment 1 by clon...@yahoo.com.au, Sep 6 

I apologise, I realise that's very harsh wording and I didn't mean it to be quite so bad. It just pisses me off so much when software developers completely ignore common sense UI design. It's like how the autofill box deselects any selected text when you mouse over one of the options so pressing ctrl+c just as you move your mouse away often doesn't copy anything at all. ARGH. I shouldn't have to fight my computer to get work done.

Comment 2 by woxxom@gmail.com, Sep 6 

Chrome/Chromium always compromises in favor of the majority which is why this terrible glitch was left as is, I guess. See also  issue 865115 . You can disable the new behavior in chrome://flags until it is fixed or the flag is removed.

Comment 3 by clon...@yahoo.com.au, Sep 6 

Far out, really?? So it's not a bug. It's intentional. W. T. F.

What majority? I have never, ever heard even a single person complain about https and www being shown in the address bar. It makes absolutely no sense to remove it, and makes even less sense (so it's now negative sense) because it still gets copied when you copy the address (even when it's not shown!!) and is re-shown when you edit the address. So... WTF.

Comment 4 by clon...@yahoo.com.au, Sep 6 

Thank frick for the flag. I would genuinely have to switch to Firefox (and that has its own annoying UI quirks) if not for that flag. chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

Comment 5 by meh...@chromium.org, Sep 6

Mergedinto: 865115
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
Dupe of  issue 865115 .
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