Firefox Ctrl+LeftArrow/RightArrow key combinations doesn't work

[lightblue]

Hey folks,

In FireFox (address bar or search box) i cannot select next or previous word by pressing ctrl+shift+arrow keys,
The cursor either goes to the end or start of the strings.
i.e. i cannot select the following by pressing ctrl+shift+right arrow when i put the cursor at the first of the address bar



instead, i get this:



i tried to disable all addons and restart firefox in safe mode, but the issue didn't vanish.

PS1:I don't have this issue on my Chromium
PS2: I'm using FireFox 44.0

[hcvv]

Did that function as you think it should, earlier in Firefox?

I ask because I like to know if it is something that changed in Firefox, or something that you experienced in another application (Chromium) and think that it should "thus" function the same way in another application (Firefox).

Background is that you say that that key-combination should go to the next/previous word. IMHO words are seperated by white space. But I understand from your description that you mean going to the next/previous item of an URL. When that is the case, what should be the seperator(s)? Only / or also ? and & and more?

[lightblue]

Did that function as you think it should, earlier in Firefox?

I ask because I like to know if it is something that changed in Firefox, or something that you experienced in another application (Chromium) and think that it should "thus" function the same way in another application (Firefox).

Background is that you say that that key-combination should go to the next/previous word. IMHO words are seperated by white space. But I understand from your description that you mean going to the next/previous item of an URL. When that is the case, what should be the seperator(s)? Only / or also ? and & and more?

Hi hcvv and thanks for your reply.

Actually it works on Mageia and WIndows ( i sync my FireFox and have the same extensions, bookmarks and .. on all systems), but i don't know whether it used to work on OpenSuse or not.

For separators, i think it's a simple regular expression, which separates words if there are "/, . : ?" or digits between them

Thanks

[tannington]

I've used Firefox on openSUSE 12.x 13.x and Tumbleweed (all with KDE desktop), as far as I remember the Ctrl+Left|RightArrow has always been space-delimited... whether that's by design, or is in fact a bug, I don't know.

You could try asking over on the Mozillazine Forums http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php

[hcvv]

I never felt any urge to do such a thing, but I now tried this on openSUSE 131.1 with Firefox 44.0.

First clicked to a random place in the address bar. Then used Ctrl-RightArrow and Ctrl-Leftarrow. The cursor jumped to the right/left, stoping at the right any of . / ? = &. It handles the :// combination as one "separator though.

I do not know if the OP defines this as "does work", but that is what I see.

[tannington]

First clicked to a random place in the address bar. Then used Ctrl-RightArrow and Ctrl-Leftarrow. The cursor jumped to the right/left, stoping at the right any of . / ? = &. It handles the :// combination as one "separator though.

Interesting... The behaviour you're seeing (which is what I would expect it to do) is not what I (or the OP?) is seeing.

Taking "https://forums.opensuse.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=2755475" as an example. Ctrl-LeftArrow moves to the very beginning, and Ctrl-RightArrow moves to the very end, it doesn't stop on the "./?=&" characters.

Tested using openSUSE 13.2 / KDE "4" / Firefox 38.0.6 and with Tumbleweed (20160212) / KDE "5" / Firefox 44.0

Desktop environment, or a user setting somewhere ???

[hcvv]

I used the URL of this thread in my test (which is the same or very similar to what you used).

I do not think I ever changed a setting for this. As said, I never used the feature, thus I never felt the need to change something here from the default.

Maybe another 13.1 user can test and post?

[tannington]

... I do not think I ever changed a setting for this. ...

But it looks like I/we did - OK, found the "problem"

It's a non-UI Firefox setting:

use "about:config" to set the value of "layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation" to true

[hcvv]

I can not realy imagine that you and the OP (and others) did realy set that willingly.

[gogalthorp]

Maybe carry over from previous OS/Version settings.

The actual history of configuration files are important since they are generally not changed between versions.