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What happened to highlighting full paragraphs when you double click on a piece of text?

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When ever I double click I cannot highlight the entire text for some strange reason. And this happened all of a sudden. Because I was having no trouble about a few days ago but all of a sudden now when I double click on one word it only highlights that one word not the entire sentence or paragraph??

When ever I double click I cannot highlight the entire text for some strange reason. And this happened all of a sudden. Because I was having no trouble about a few days ago but all of a sudden now when I double click on one word it only highlights that one word not the entire sentence or paragraph??

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You should be able to do this by triple clicking.

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You can look at this pref on the about:config page.

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Oh shit yeah I meant triple click. and I see the triple click in about config what should it be set to?

I tried clicking on the hyper link you have set there but it doesnt work?

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maybe your mouse driver software is interfering?

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double clicking works fine in a word document and on chrome, opera, and IE.......

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many drivers like logitech's setpoint offer different mouse button "profiles" for different applications though...

how is it going in firefox safe-mode?

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safe mode doesn't do anything and I havent changed any mouse settings...

But there was an update for firefox.....

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I'm going to lock this thread to keep the conversation in one thread because you have another (earlier) thread about this triple-click subject.

Please continue here:

Modified by cor-el