186150 - Autocomplete should show listing for blank form items on focus, not on typing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173569

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Akshay Arora]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

The autocomplete should disply it's drop-down when focus is given to the blank
form textfield. The logical order would either be most recent used to last, or
alphabetical

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Devin Henderson]

i agree, an important feature to add. makes filling out web forms so much
easier... this is IMO the only remaining thing that IE does better than phoenix

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Devin, how are you giving focus to the textbox in Windows IE that gives you an
autocomplete list immediately?  I don't get it by either clicking or tabbing,
regardless of whether there's already text in the textbox.  The only way I know
to get a complete list of what I've typed into a textbox in IE is to click a
textbox that's already focused (bug 173569 for adding that to Phoenix).

Comment 3

[Devin Henderson]

i am not the original reporter of this bug. personally i would ask for the list
to be available not when focus is given but when you double-click inside the
blank text field. this is the way IE does it.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

either a dupe if the reporter is happy with the original bug report or a
won'tfix if he's not.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173569 ***

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.