105201 - intuitive navigation of bookmarks menu, seek first character typed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 67952

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Caspy7]

While accessing the bookmarks menu from the menu toolbar or the Personal
toolbar, typing an 'A' should bring focus to the first folder or bookmark
beginning with an 'A'.  Typing 'A' again would take the focus to the next one
and so on.  If focus goes to the bottom and there are none left it starts back
at the top again.  If there are no 'A's, it does nothing.
The only conflict I could see here are the menu items that already have
underlined characters.  The solution would be to treat them as bookmarks as well
so that when the letter is typed focus only goes to the item and does not open
it (this is also how windows treats multiple underlined characters in the same
menu).  When there is only one item starting with 'A' it would give focus to
that item and 1) if it is a folder list the contents 2) if it is a bookmark go
to that URL.  This behavior is similar to that of the windows start menu.

It would be great functionality, intuitive for most users (in the world) and - I
suspect - not horribly difficult to impliment as well.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67952 ***

Comment 2

[:deanis74]

yep