Comment 8 for bug 1888942

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using Firefox 78.0.2 on Linux/X11:
1. Visit a URL by entering it into the location bar and pressing return
2. Click into the location bar once or press Ctrl+L; the URL gets highlighted
3. Middle click into any text area (inside firefox or some other window/application)

Actual results:

URL does not get pasted.

Expected results:

URL should be in PRIMARY as soon as it gets highlighted and be able to be pasted somewhere else.

This bug has been introduced only shortly before my current 78.0.2 as I regularly use this procedure to paste URLs into mails and constantly end up not pasting what I want.

I don't know how others feel, but I miss the triple-click to select which is the standard in any other application (or even within text areas inside firefox)! This is a real break in usability standards.
With the current way of automatic full selection of the URL by the first click, I also cannot select parts of the URL (which I have to do all the time because of unnecessary sessionid, tracking and whatnot parameters in today's urls) without clicking a second time, which is also completely uncommon to any selectable text.

clipboard.autocopy is set (untouched).
The description of http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clipboard.autocopy is also wrong now with the current behavior.

If this is a feature and not a bug, please make it configurable (and I'd suggest to make the standard of a whole desktop environment the standard and not this way that breaks the standard). If you do not agree please at least make it configurable and leave the "feature" the standard.