298685 - Right-click in address bar while typing breaks autocomplete and no more text input

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251887

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Jon B]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The autocomplete list moves to the center of the screen and won't go away.  When
you click on one of the choices, it disappears, but does not go to the link.

Once when this happened I was not able to input text to Firefox until I clicked
outside of Firefox and then came back in.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click in address bar to set text input focus there.
2. Right-click in address bar.  Hold it down.
3. Start typing an address that causes the autocomplete to pop up.
4. Release right mouse button

Comment 1

[Kyle Smith]

I just wanted to add that, while clicking on one of the autocomplete choices
doesn't go there, you can still use up/down to select a link and that will work
and close the autocomplete list.

Comment 2

[chris sabo]

Unable to reproduce. Right click goes to the site

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

When I release the rightclick button, the rightclick menu appears (I don't see
the function of rightclicking in this), but when I ignore the rightclick-menu
and click an autocomplete link it does not go to the autocomplete choice.

Workaround may be not to rightclick in the location bar if not necessary ?

Comment 4

[Jon B]

(In reply to comment #3)
> When I release the rightclick button, the rightclick menu appears (I don't see
> the function of rightclicking in this)

I did it accidentally.  But then it acted buggy so I pointed it out.  Maybe the
same bug causes other small unseen problems, you know?

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

This is probably a dupe of bug 251887.

Comment 6

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

Yeah, it is. Strange bug, but I definitely core popup code, not Firefox specific.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251887 ***