282954 - Pressing Enter after FAYT does not open Gmail message

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Consider the gmail inbox.

I have disabled gmail-shortcuts so that they don't interfere with the FAYT feature.

FAYT searches text in the subject field in the inbox page in mail that I'm
reading. The problem is that if it finds a word that i type in the subject field
of a mail, and if I hit <Enter> when the word is highlighted by FAYT, the mail
does not open. only underlined links are followed to their urls by FAYT.

but hitting <enter> does not open the mail in whose description a typed word was
found using FAYT.
 FAYT searches the text that it did not search according to above description,
but hitting <enter> does not open the mail in whose description a typed word was
found using FAYT.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.FAYT should be enabled. "move system caret as i type" should be enabled.

2. disable keyboard shortcuts in gmail.
- click on the settings link in gmail.
- disable keyboard shortcuts by clicking the "Keyboard shortcuts off" radio
button in the page.
- click on "Save settings" to return to inbox.

3.use FAYT: in the inbox, let's say u want to open (read) a mail in whose
subject line you can see the word "bugzilla".
- type "bugzilla". the word in the subject line of a mail gets highlighted.
- hit <enter>.

Actual Results:  
NOTHING HAPPENS. :-o
 That's the problem.  :D

Expected Results:  
The mail should have opened for me to read.

1. In the menu displayed upon right clicking anywhere over a mail's entry in the
inbox, the 'open in a new tab', etc options are not there.  

2. On moving the mouse over the same mail in the inbox, the pointer changes to
the "pointing hand" that one sees upon hovering over a link in a web-page.
Clicking the mouse opens the mail.

3. If a word in a mail's entry in the inbox is highlighted by fayt, hitting
<enter> does not work.


In light of facts 1-3, 
POSSIBLE workaround:
hitting enter in a non-editable-text field could also generate a
left-button-click event at the location of the system-caret to simulate a
mouse-click at the caret-position.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The "links" to Gmail messages are not actually links, so it makes sense that
pressing Enter does not follow them.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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