290917 - shift+delete does not remove form autocomplete history

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 271692

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[mark a. foltz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

see below.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
steps to reproduce:

(1) enable form history/autocompletion under Privacy -> Saved Form Information
(2) enter text into a form element.
(3) submit form and return to page. start typing characters of previous text
(4) press down arrow to select saved entry, then shift+delete to delete it
Actual Results:  
the rightmost character is deleted

Expected Results:  
selected autocomplete entry is deleted

this behavior is also observed in the address bar history, and the google search
bar history.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, just to be sure, did you press the button labeled 'delete' (in the
block right above the arrow keys), or did you press 'backspace' (the top-right
button of the main keyarea). I'm using the PC-terminology here, because most Mac
keyboards use icons, and then it's more difficult.

There's a lot of confusion between the delete and backspace keys. The backspace
is often considered a 'backward delete', while the delete key is often the
'forward delete'.

Note : I do have a Mac at home, but it's a laptop and it's missing the delete
key at all, so I can't test. But I remember that shift-backspace (the top-right
key of the main key area) used to work, at least a few days ago.

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271692 ***

Comment 3

[mark a. foltz]

mac laptops lack a del key.  (i am using a powerbook g4).  therefore, the
delete-from-autocomplete-history function is unavailable on mac laptops.

also, the keybinding documentation on the firefox website is incorrect (it says
'shift-delete', not 'shift-del'.

Comment 4

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Bug 271692 has mapped both shift+del and shift+delete to remove autocomplete
entries (on mac), you can check that on a trunk nightly build, or wait for the
1.1 release.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271692 ***