441080 - selection lost when scrolling add-ons list with the keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[siersc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

The selection bar is lost when scrolling add-ons list with the keyboard, and the list is is longer then one visible screen - i.e. the vertival scrollbar is active.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open add-ons manager (^+Shift+A )---the vertical scrollbar of this window should be active (many add-ons, long list)
2. press "down" key on the keyboard; the selection bar appears. after scrolling down (with the keyboard) it suddenly disappears
Actual Results:  
no selection bar.

Expected Results:  
selection bar should go down and scroll the list of add-ons

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

I see different behavior, when scrolling in the addons manager, the following occurs:

If I highlight (i.e. by clicking) a single addon then up/down keys work fine but the right/left keys don't do anything, if I click on one of the icons on top (i.e. plugins, extensions) then up/down/right/left all scroll through the tabs (plugins, extensions) and I can't access any single addon at all.

Accessibility problem?

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Please can you attach copies of extensions.log, extensions.ini, extensions.cache and extensions.rdf from your profile folder to this bug report. If some of them don't exist let me know.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If I highlight (i.e. by clicking) a single addon then up/down keys work fine
> but the right/left keys don't do anything, if I click on one of the icons on
> top (i.e. plugins, extensions) then up/down/right/left all scroll through the
> tabs (plugins, extensions) and I can't access any single addon at all.

Different issue which maybe should be filed, but all that is happening is that the different areas have focus, I think it is a reasonable behaviour.

Comment 4

[siersc]

sorry for late response, I was on holidays. unfortunately I don't know how to attach the files to this website; the mail i tried to sent to you was bounced.
the only files that don't exists is extensions.cache.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Use the "Add an attachment" link on this bug report.

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

We can't evaluate this report further without the information requested. Please reopen it if you can provide it.