175807 - Typeahead can't be disabled

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 176296

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement, P2)

Description

[kguru]

Typehead on Build 2002101612 and other recent builds can't be disabled on the
Mac OS X port of Mozilla.  Typehead should be able to be disabled through the
preferences menu or during the install process.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To keyboard nav.. we need ui for that pref, yes.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Marlon and I were talking about doing thsi as a checkmark in the edit menu.

Something like:
[x] Type Ahead Find enabled

or 

[x] Find links as you type

depending on whether we want a descriptive or memorable name.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Bug 169490 is the typeaheadfind prefs bug.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

it's actually bug 169489. :)

Comment 5

[kguru]

Some logins cause typeahead to make it impossible to enter user names and I am
unable to turn it off.  On the Windows and Mac Classic port I believe a custom
installation allows typeahead to not be installed.  The Mac OS X installation
doesn't appear to provide custom install options, unless I'm somehow missing
them.  This bug should be reclassified as Macintosh OS X as it is not the same
problem.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

iirc, type ahead find is now part of the installation for all platforms. i don't
think there's a way to deselect this feature in the installer now --unless it's
still there in mozilla (win32/unix).

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176296 ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup.