311488 - Shift-Del does not remove elements in the dialog boxes like V1.0 did.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Martin Etscovitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

For instance, when I have a blank filed such as a search field in Google, I can
normally click on it and the historical list comes up and I can scroll down and
choose.  Often I like to clear it all out so I hilight the first one and press
Shift-Del and they all are deleted.  Now with both 1.5 Beta releases, it deletes
the hilighted entry in the pull down, but I then have to tab down to the next
entry and hold Shift-Del.  Not a big deal, but a change in behavour from V1.0.6

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a field in a web page you have previously made entries (search in
Google for example)
2.Left click on this, observe historical entries, hilight the first one.
3.Hold Shift-Delete, observe one gets deleted but the focus changes back to the
box.  Must tab down to the next entry and then holding Shift-Del clears them all
out.  This appears to be a change of behavor in the beta versions (1.5) from the
previous releases.

Actual Results:  
only one entry gets deleted

Expected Results:  
Should delete as many as you have if you hold down the shift-del keys

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

I see this on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5)
Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006
Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005100618

WFM. Possibly an extension causing this? 

Comment 3

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

This works if you use the down arrow key to open the dropdown.

Comment 4

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051006
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005100607
I can see it too.
If you select the first (or any) item with the mouse pointer, Shift-Del will
only allow one deletion and then you'll have to refocus on the drop down.
If you use the arrow keys, you can delete them one by one without losing focus.

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I can reproduce this in my default profile but not in a new profile. I tried to
find out what was causing this to no avail. 
Nothing in the folder extensions or in prefs.js. 
But when I removed everything in my profile except the folders extensions and
chrome and the files prefs.js, localstore.rdf, hostperm.1, signons.txt key3.db,
history.dat and bookmarks.html, the problem went away. 
No doubt that it will come back.  

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Correction: I could also get it to fail twice in a new profile now, so it must
have been coincidence.
I have also Shift key problems managing folders in Explorer btw.

Comment 7

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

WFM, new profile, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060216 Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 8

[Gabor Guzmics]

(In reply to comment #0)

Well, under Linux, DEL doesnt work anyway, just does SHIFT+DEL, but I know in Explorer its only DEL. Can't remember to have used DEL in Firefox under windows anytime, but SHIFT+DEL never deleted all of them, only the one selected.

So if this bug is rechanged to DEL for 1 entry and SHIFTDEL for all entries, I hope the linux version will be changed accordingly and some note is posted somewhere.

Comment 9

[buovjaga]

Shift-Del still acting like Del. I do not need to refocus to delete, when I've summoned the list with a mouse click.
FF 50.1.0 (Arch Linux 64-bit)