Many folks (my mother included) expect the URLbar text to be selected if it gets focus. The idea is that you are providing a whole new URL instead of hand-editting the existing one 99.6% of the time. Firefox/Mozilla makes this configurable. Default value is false (why??!). Changing it is as simple as visiting “about:config”. Filter on “click” and then toggling the “browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll” to true. You need to restart Firefox for this change to take effect.
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It’s set to false by default on linux, presumably to emulate other linux browsers.
It’s set to true by default on windows.