Comment 49 for bug 50254

(In reply to comment #28)
> Instead of changing the default behaviour - which is as expected by traditional
> *nix users - a better approach might be to make the hidden preference more
> accessible and to raise awareness that this behaviour of Firefox can be
> changed.

I don't think so. Firefox's core UI philosophy was always that it should work as-is and not offer thousands of options in its preferences dialog. If we started to offer UI for prefs like this, the end result will look like SeaMonkey's prefs dialog, and that would be a step backwards (no offense meant). I think we can all agree that Firefox's simplicity is one of the main reasons for its success among non-geek users, and we should preserve it. (I do realize this is a core bug and not a Firefox bug, but I think even for SeaMonkey this pref is too fine-grained to be added to the UI.)

> The complaints are probably all from recent Windows converts.

While I _am_ a "Windows convert", I do not see why this fact makes my opinion any less important. Besides, in contrast to what you imply here, the suggested behaviour (stop at punctuation) is not standard behaviour among Windows applications - I've encountered several applications that have it wrong.

For the record, I'm in favor of changing the pref to true.