83922 - Pressing Enter in autocomplete menu should load that URL in Open Web Location dialog

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Joseph Wang]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-1mdk i586; en-US; rv:0.9+)
Gecko/20010603
BuildID:    2001060306

URL name completion under the "Open Web Location" is a nice
new feature but one with a counter intuitive UI

The sequence of events is

1. I type in a partial URL
2. The combo box drops down with a list of URLS to complete
3. I move the arrow keys to select one of the URLS
4. Press return
5. The URL then gets put into the input box and I have to 
do something more to have it load the page

It would be a lot nicer if that first return loaded the page
rather than just put the URL in the dialog box

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.See above
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing hewitt -- it's his widget

Comment 2

[timeless]

I'm probably opposed to this rfe...
sometimes people want to add to a url from autocomplete, eg, http://bo 
completing to http://bonsai.mozilla.org/ and I want to add 
c(vsblame.cgi?file=)+ctrl-v for some random file.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

With build 2001062105 on Mac OS 9.1, I don't get an auto-completion menu at all.
Is there a separate bug for that?

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

marking NEW.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Worksforme, build 2001082104, Mac OS 9.1. If this is still happening on Linux, 
it's a bug. --> XP Apps: GUI for verification.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

wfm, 2001.08.22.08-comm bits on linux.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

oh, wait a sec --this wfm when i'm in the URLbar. i didn't initially read this
properly: the problem is with the textfield in the Open Web Location dialog. in
which case, yes, hitting Enter doesn't automatically dismiss the dialog and load
the page after selecting the url from the autocomplete list.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

so, i'm still assuming this is an issue with the field in the Open Web Location
dialog, not the URL bar --right? [btw, i see this on all platforms,
2001.08.27-comm.]

this is what i'm doing:

1. bring Open Web Location dialog [shift+accel+L, or File > Open Web Location].
2. in the textfield, start typing a url you've viewed --the autocomplete
droplist should appear.
3. arrow down the droplist to select [highlight] a url.
4. hit the enter key.

expected(*): at step (4), the dialog is dismissed and the url selected in step
(3) is loaded in the browser.

actual: at step (4), the selection appears in the dialog's textfield. however,
the dialog remains up and the page doesn't load until you hit enter again.

(*) the question is, is this really expected or a bug in the behavior of the
selection within the droplist of this dialog?

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

The auto-complete menu in the dialog should behave the same way as the
auto-complete menu in the browser window.

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

Fixed.

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

*** Bug 100805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy fixed with the following commercial verif bits:

linux [rh6.2] - 2001.11.01.12
winnt - 2001.10.31.03
mac 10.1 - 2001.10.31.13