Comment 4 for bug 929

The only option that does not break copy-pasting is the <wbr> tag. But it's not valid HTML by any measure.

Any other option is not acceptable for url, which are commonly copy-pasted. Of course you can right-click-copyurl, but people just do not do that.

I witnessed one employee being badly surprised by copy-pasting a URL that contained zero-width space in the prototype of the branch registration code. That's why I removed the feature.

My preferred solution to this bug is:

    * Do not try being smart, don't arbitrarily insert tags or special characters.
    * Remove the right column, and use a layout that lets the browser handle overfull lines gracefully.

It is not a problem if scrolling is only required to view those veryverylongwords, and if they do not prevent other UI elements from being usable.

I am pretty sure that any other solution is bound to be diffult to implement and annoying in one way or another.