254302 - space bar should select item from menu under MacOS X

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Krishna Sethuraman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040802 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040802 Firefox/0.9.1+

Under MacOS X, native applications allow you to scroll down to a menu item using
the arrow keys and select it using the space bar.  Firefox under MacOSX requires
use of the Return key.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Space bar does nothing.

Expected Results:  
In the interest of integrating into the rest of the Mac OSX environment, the
space-bar should be the default to select a menu item.

Either that, or it should be easy to select this behavior via the preferences.

(I'm a big keyboard user; my setup makes it tricky for me to use the mouse).

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Works for me in the latest branch build (not trunk as reported here), on Mac OS
X 10.2.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040804
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 2

[Ben Willmore]

WFM on Mac OS X 10.3.5

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Firefox/0.10

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Well, this is the behavior of XBL form controls (User interface), but not html
selects.

confirmed.