Closed Bug 1295718 Opened 8 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Don't close the urlbar popup when pressing left/right arrow keys

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P2)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox51 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: adw, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxsearch] fixed in quantumbar) 

Stephen and I were discussing the tab/arrrow key behavior re: the one-off search buttons, and he mentioned that the popup shouldn't close when you press the left/right arrow keys.  The caret in the text field should simply move left/right, as it does now, but without closing the popup.
I think the reason we close the popup atm, is that in case of autofill LEFT/RIGHT/HOME/END actually confirm the suggestion, and by doing so the searched text changes and previous results are, technically, no more valid.
This may be as easy as setting "norolluponanchor" attribute, but it will probably have consequences on autoFill and automated tests that should be verified. Very likely it will require changes to the autocomplete controller since norollup was never tested with the location bar.
Priority: P1 → P2
Note that Cliqz also wants this same behavior, so it would be nice to fix this.
Blocks: 1379431
It would be good if we could fix both this bug and bug 1379431 at the same time.
This is fixed in the current quantumbar implementation.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
status-firefox51: affected → wontfix
Depends on: quantumbar
Whiteboard: [fxsearch] → [fxsearch] fixed in quantumbar
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