303032 - Up/Down cursor keys should select search engine when textbox is selected.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[derek reisner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

when in the extendable searchbar, the up/down cursor keys should choose google
vs wiki vs amazon etc. for intuitive keyboard use.  it is currently used for
auto-completion selection.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click within to select search bar text window
2.press cursor up/down on keyboard (attempting to change search engine selected)
3.notice the lack of change and mutter to the world.

Actual Results:  
the lack of results are actual.

Expected Results:  
i would've hoped for an opening of the search engine selection window as well as
a step down to the next available search engine (assuming down was pressed.) 
this would seem to be effective and intuitive.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

There is a conflict because there are really 2 popups -- search engines and
search history.

The standard drop down keys Alt+down and F4 have the effect of clicking on the
dropmarker as in a normal combo box. You can also cycle through the engines via
ctrl+up and ctrl+down.

Pressing just down arrow opens up the history list. At the time you pressed down
arrow you probably had no search history yet.