309738 - UI integration broken for the History list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309739

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Andre Sihera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Single clicking on the entry loads the web page when the expected action
is to purely hightlight the option so I can then:

1) scroll up and down but return to the place where I clicked the item
2) deselect the item using "CTRL+click" as it was the wrong page
3) right-click on the item to get a context menu.
4) double-click the item to *confirm* my intention to open the page, having
   gone off and opened a new tab, or having selected a tab that I want to
   overwrite (for example).

This is a fundamental break of UI integration on the Windows platform and
is very, VERY frustrating. Not least because Windows users who don't expect
this behaviour will be always blowing away the contents of some other tab
when they don't expect it, and then have to use the back button.

The single/double click mechanism on list items is a core part of Windows
UI functionality. This needs to be fixed as soon as possible.

* It is not the job of an extension to be fixing this kind of problem.
* Even if there is an extension that can fix the problem it is seriously
* unwise to assume that, because there is an extension to fix this, your
* average user will be able to find out about the existence of the
* extension and then install it.
*
* Firefox may be good but user-ubiquity will be impossible if they have
* to install numerous extensions to fix fundamental UI integration breaks
* like this. It should be fixed in code.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the history bar.
2. Single left-click on an entry.

Actual Results:  
Single clicking on the entry loads the web page


Expected Results:  
Single clicking on the entry should only *select* the entry, allowing me
from there to either select another entry or deselect the entry. Double-
clicking on the entry should load the web page.

Comment 1

[Andre Sihera]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309739 ***