32194 - RFE: Escape key in location bar should revert URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 47863

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Pressing escape while editing the URL in the location bar should cause the URL 
to revert to the URL of the page displayed.  Currently a user must hit reload 
to figure out the URL of the current page.

If a new page is being loaded, but hasn't started rendering, while escape is 
pressed (but the location bar still has focus), the first escape should stop 
the loading of the new page without reverting the location bar to the previous 
page.  Pressing escape a second time should revert the URL.  See also bug 
#29085 (escape key should stop page loading) - this bug might depend on 29085.

Comment 1

[Richard Zach]

-> don

Comment 2

[Paul MacQuiddy]

spam, changing selected qa contact on selected bugs from [e-mail] to 
[e-mail]

Comment 3

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

Since Don has left, Vishy is taking his bugs in bulk, pending reassignment.
thanks,
	Vishy

Comment 4

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

I would personally like to do this, but got lots of other things to do for 
beta1. Marking nsbeta1-, adding helpwanted

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: over to urlbar.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

gah, really this time...

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 68176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Paul Chen]

Since I plused the one about not overwriting url bar if you type in it, you
kinda need this feature. Marking nsbeta1+

Comment 9

[Alec Flett]

as much as I'd like to fix this in mozilla 0.9, I am overloaded and must push
this back a milestone. Sorry!

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

Cc Doron, who suggested selecting the contents of the location bar after 
reverting the url.  So now we have:

Esc in the location bar while the page isn't loading should revert and select 
the contents of the location bar.  (If the url doesn't need to be reverted, the 
url should still be selected.)

It might be necessary to turn off the selecting on Linux.  It would probably 
make sense to copy code from the Ctrl+L handler to take care of platform 
differences.

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

Doron has a fix in bug 47863, "Pressing Esc in address field should restore URL 
to that of page".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47863 ***

Comment 12

[timeless]

vrfy dupe