123712 - URL drop down should not show arrows for scroll when only one match

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Erik Moeller]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

If you enter a search term in the location bar which is matched exactly once
with the previously visited URLs, there's one blank line in the search combobox.
This only occurs since .9.8 AFAIK

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter a term in the search bar which matches part of an URL that you
previously visited
2. make sure that it only matches ONE previously visited URL


Actual Results:  an empty selection appears before the "Search for .." selection

Expected Results:  only one selection should appear before the "Search for .."
selection

Comment 1

[Erik Moeller]

Attachment: Screenshot which shows the bug in action

Comment 2

[Itamar]

Well its not really an empty selection - since you can't actually select it.
I guess that the up and down buttons cause this problem and that they shouldn't
be there if there is only one selection.

Comment 3

[John Levon]

No dupe found, confirming.

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

-> Autocomplete

Comment 5

[Tobias Tinkerman]

This is a regression that is still visible as we approach 1.0.  This should be 
fixed, as it (A)makes the autocomplte dropdown look unprofessional and (B)has 
the possibility to make people click these scroll arrows, and then think that 
mozilla is broken because nothing is happening when they're trying to scroll.

Comment 6

[Lorenzo Colitti]

I agree. This looks very sloppy.

Comment 7

[Lorenzo Colitti]

The blan line is not a whole line, but a vertical space. I suspect it's there to
allow the two scroll buttons to appear.

The problem, of course, is that the scroll buttons should not appear if there is
only one possible match.

Comment 8

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Sorry for spamming with comments that others have already made. I guess I should
learn to read. :)

Comment 9

[Tobias Tinkerman]

This is annoying as this works properly with WIN XP (Classis Theme only) due 
to the native theme support I guess, however once you change to modern this 
bug shows up and makes it look like modern is broken

Comment 10

[Tobias Tinkerman]

I see ther was some selective deleting done on my last post.  I'll open a bug 
on one of my other deleted statements, however, will repost the rest anyway.  
This bug, as many other UI polish bugs, have been open since around 2000.  
Mozilla's outward appearance (UI) needs to be fixed up.  Nobody seems to 
care.  And the partial deletion of my last post just confirms that even more.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051020 SeaMonkey/1.1a  (plus autocomplete has changed)