Comment 51 for bug 50254

> Instead of changing the default behaviour - which is as expected by
> traditional *nix users.. [...] The complaints are probably all from
> recent Windows converts.

I've been using unix seriously for ten years, full-time on the desktop for five. I remember being specifically annoyed by broken behaviour for ctrl+arrow keys in the URL bar when I first started using Netscape Navigator on Linux at home in the mid-nineties and this lack of functionality continued to regularly frustrate me until I discovered the hack to change stop_at_punctuation in mid 2005.

The idea that this is a change needed for new people is incorrect. The current default behaviour has always been deficient for usage which prefers the keyboard over the mouse. I presented a use case to demonstrate this in an earlier post.

The default configuration of firefox should support word jumping in the URL bar via use of ctrl+arrow keys.

I believe Mac used to have stop_at_punctuation=false style navigation. I remember struggling with the near-broken mouses on OS 7 or 8 terminals at uni running Navigator 3. But a recent build of firefox for Mac on my laptop supports word jumping in the URL-bar via alt+arrow.