Closed Bug 328034 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

(Backward) Delete/Erase To The Left should not perform Back

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 320203

People

(Reporter: camino.del.falcon, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0

Delete (a.k.a "Backward Delete" or "Erase To The Left"; a.k.a "Backspace" on Windows) causes Camino to go Back. I think this is not a desirable behavior, for the following reasons:
1. It doesn't work this way in Finder.
2. When using find-as-you-type, and you want to correct your search string by using Delete, but you press it too many times, for too long, or too late (that is, after find-as-you-type has timed out), Camino unexpectedly goes Back.
3. When filling out a form and you're trying to correct what you wrote by pressing Delete, but for whatever reason the form loses focus (and this does happen, especially in conjunction with bug 328026), you unexpectedly make Camino go Back.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start find-as-you-type.
2. Type something.
3. Keep Delete pressed to erase the whole string.

Actual Results:  
Camino goes Back one page (or more).

Expected Results:  
The search string in find-as-you-type should've been erased and nothing more.
The devs have been quite clear that the default behavior won't change, but there is a Gecko pref for this, and we'll obey that pref (soon).

(This bad interaction with FAYT is one of my main issues with the mapping.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 320203 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.