402383 - [OS X] control-n and control-p should select next and previous results respectively

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Craig Rose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110304 Minefield/3.0a9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110304 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Text input areas in Firefox on the Mac OS X platform already implement some standard Cocoa NSTextView style keyboard bindings. For example Control-b and Control-f for previous and next character. 

Users familiar with this method of navigating textual input will also expect that Control-n and Control-p perform next and previous operations. Firefox already correctly uses these keys in multiline textareas for moving between lines. The auto-complete drop down selectors should also implement Control-n and Control-p for selecting next and previous items. This is the standard behavior for Safari (generally all WebKit browsers) and Opera.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select location bar
2. Type in address with auto-completions
3. Press Control-n
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Next auto-completed address would be selected

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.