Select the entire url when clicking the address-bar
Hi!
Load any webpage in epiphany -> click the url-bar -> the cursor appears right there where you clicked.
What I suggest here, is to select the entire url after clicking on it, so that the user can type whatever, without having to delete the previous url first.
Basically, what I'm suggesting is that the action "clicking on the url" triggers the same action as the shortcut ctrl+l
.
I suppose that, for gui-oriented users, deleting the entire current url is a pain. They are not used to use shortcuts, not even for speeding up the deletion (like ctrl+a
, followed by backspace
).
The scenario in which the user really wants to edit the current url, instead of replacing it, is quite uncommon I believe. However, it doesn't have to be sacrificed. The user could click twice in a row, on the same spot, to get the cursor right there in the url.
To my knowledge, chromium/chrome provides this ux. I don't know about other browsers.
It might not make much difference for geek-users, I see, but I believe that this feature is simply unquestionable for mobile users.
What do you think?