271928 - Unable to selectively delete several history items in one operation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260367

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[lewisk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Since upgrading to firefox 1 from 0.9, I am no longer able to highlight a series
of entries in history for removal.  I must highlight only one and delete each
item individually or go to edit, select all, delete.  Frequently I want to leave
some of the history items and delete others (for example the endless entries
yahoo mail leaves behind after I've check my email.) In version 0.9  I could
accomplish selective removal of several items by using the  control/apple keys 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open history
2.hit control and apple keys
3.attempt to highlight history items for removal

Actual Results:  

Only one item is highlighted for deletion


Expected Results:  
In version 0.9 I was able to hold down the control/apple keys and drag the mouse
down the history to hightlight as many items as I wanted to delete

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

you can do multi-select if you click to the left of the items in the tree.  This
is by design.  There is a bug that there is no context menu, but you can hit
delete on your keyboard.

Comment 2

[disgruntled.toaster]

That's compeltely unintutiive, how am I supposed ot know this?

Can someone please post the bug for the history sidebar redesign here please?

Comment 3

[disgruntled.toaster]

Also can you post the bug for no context menu Mike?  I have many difficulties
searching Bugzilla even though I did find this bug.

Since this adds the multiple item selection for delete, I am just missing open
selection in new tab/window as was inherent in the old sidebar..

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260367 ***