306337 - Pressing Shift+Delete on a drop-down contact suggestion should (prompt to) delete the suggested contact

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Søren Thing Pedersen]

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

I mostly use the collected addresses in the address book for word completion
when entering new receivers in to:, cc: or bcc:. Therefore, it would be great if
I could delete contacts in the address book directly from the drop down contact
suggestion.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start typing e-mail or name for contact in to:,cc: or bcc:
2. A list of suggestions will drop down
3. Press down arrow until you find a deprecated contact
4. Press Delete

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
The contact should be deleted.

Comment 1

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Delete shouldn't delete it - it should be Shift+Delete.

Shift+Delete deletes autocomplete suggestions from the location bar in Firefox,
but it doesn't delete their associated history entries. It also deletes
autocomplete suggestions in web forms; but here the data (the text) is
completely removed.

I'm not sure whether Shift+Delete should delete contacts. I suppose it would
make sense if it deleted contacts that were collected, but just deleted the
suggestion for manually-added contacts.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 321648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

attn Mark :)