1415542 - Keyboard shortcuts for selecting next (ctrl-n) / previous (ctrl-p) result candidate in address bar and search bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 815735

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Floyd Wan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20171024165158

Steps to reproduce:

Type a few words in address bar or search bar and there will be a list of result candidates below. To navigate through these items by keyboard, the most convenient and well acceptable way is to use ctrl-n and ctrl-p.


Actual results:

Ctrl-n and ctrl-p doesn't work in the candidate list. However, it move the cursor to the end and the beginning. I guess it's because the address bar and search bar are treated as multi-line text area.
You can only use arrow up and arrow down to do this, which are far from the main keyboard area.


Expected results:

Ctrl-n should select next item.
Ctrl-p should select previous item.
The ctrl-n & ctrl-p pair is kind of a hidden feature but not that seldom seen in many software. And it's well known among power users.

Comment 1

[Floyd Wan]

Just tried with Chrome and Safari, both support this feature.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)