298810 - When Alt+Down is pressed in "Web Search" the search engine selection should open (similar to location bar)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283273

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Gernot Hueller]

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

Web search and location bar are next to each other. I've found an issue where
they behave differently but they could behave similar, thus improving user
experience.

In the location bar, Alt+Down is similar to clicking the dropdown button next to
it, it opens the history of user-entered locations.

The Web Search has a "drop-down" icon next to each search engine icon, when the
mouse is clicked on that, the user can select a search engine. (There is no
search history, but I think that is OK).

Now, I would expect that when the keyboard focus is in the search field (by
pressing Ctrl+K) and you press Alt+Down, the list of available search engines
opens. But currently nothing happens.

This is a pure enhancement request. I am aware that you can use the keyboard to
select a search engine already, by pressing Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down (see Bug
257426 and Bug 235131 and Bug 251760)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl+K
2. Press Alt+Down


Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
search engine selection box could appear

theme used: default

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Alt+Down/Alt+Up are currently used to select the saved searches in the search
bar. But, if you want to change this you could always use the keyconfig
extension: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=254

-> WONTFIX ?

Comment 2

[Rudolf Vavruch]

I'm adding a vote here.

I don't care what the shortcuts are, but I would like to be able to access the
search engine drop down list via keyboard.

Much easier and quicker to find the engine you are looking for - especially
since not all the search engine icons are that clear - than flipping through
them with Ctrl-up/down.

It's annoys me to be able Ctrl-K there, but then have to use the mouse to pull
down the drop down.

Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't care what the shortcuts are, but I would like to be able to access the
> search engine drop down list via keyboard.

Ctrl up_arrow/down_arrow allow you to change between the search engines. (at
least on the current trunk version)

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283273 ***

Comment 5

[Johannes Buchner]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Ctrl up_arrow/down_arrow allow you to change between the search engines. (at
> least on the current trunk version)
cool feature!