33069 - Cannot Tag to Location Bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 31809

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[rcleetus]

I'm using the latest (Nightly) build (3/23/00), on a WindowsNT box with Service
Pack 6. I have an Intel PII 450 and 128 MB RAM.

The present UI does not allow me to tab to the Location bar to enter a new URL,
as the current Navigator does. Every time I want to browse to another page, I
have to double-click on the bar to Select All the contents of the text box, and
then enter a new address.

I sugges having an Interface like IE 5, that lets you use ALT+D to move the
focus to the Location Bar, and highlight all the contents as well. I use this
very often, and find it a very useful feature.

//Reuben.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

I'm pretty sure this is a known bug. Taking a random swig at reassigning.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31809 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

.

Comment 4

[Stanton McCandlish]

This isn't actually a duplicate of the bug it's been linked to.  THAT bug is 
that you can't tab into the address bar at all. THIS bug is that shifting focus 
to the address bar, by whatever means (apparently tabbing DOES work on Windows 
NT; it does not on Macs) doesn't cause the URL in the address bar to be 
select-all'd/highlighted for replacement.

I would add that Reuben's comment, from the duplicate [of 31809, not THIS bug 
report, 36278] bug 33069 is somewhat wide of the mark:
"I sugges having an Interface like IE 5, that lets you use ALT+D to move the
focus to the Location Bar, and highlight all the contents as well. I use this
very often, and find it a very useful feature."  

That's all well and good for Windows users, but "Alt-D" wouldn't make any sense 
at all to a Mac user.  I think what's called for is *behavior as consistent as 
possible with other browsers*.  On a Mac this means that hitting tab anywhere in 
a browser window moves from field to field, including form fields and the 
address bar.

See al

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

Okay: 
  bug #33069 is a dup of bug #31809
  bug #36278 is a dup of bug #28583
However, I'm not going to make a change: they still resolve
as duplicates. 

Adding a keyboard shortcut other than TAB is an entirely different issue, and
should go in as an RFE for UI/Design Feedback.