270569 - Ability to use the delete key to remove old items stored in a form field

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Vince]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If i'm on a page such as google, I can double-click the search field to look at
past search terms, and then use them accordingly. In IE I was able to press the
delete key to remove items from the list, this meant I didn't have to clear the
entire history in order to remove details of searches that i'd already completed.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Shift-delete.

See 

Bug 157751
	  	Delete in urlbar autocomplete should remove entry from typed in history

Bug 87098
	  	Delete key should delete location bar history list entry

Bug 162599
	  	"Clear cache" should clear form data from session history

Bug 234700
	  	deleting history entry doesn't remove it from history.dat

Bug 241438
	  	please make history.dat easier to parse (i.e., not Mork)

Bug 265678
	  	Clear Location History

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

See the original Shift-Delete for the reasons why we didn't use delete by itself.