338133 - "Open Web Location" drop down select event does not load page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Alok Bisani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

The "Open Web Location" drop down selection only fills the location field. It does not load the page selected in the drop down, as in the location bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable Navigation toolbar
2. File> Open Location
3. type in part of a URL already cached in history.
4. select the URL in the drop down using arrow keys and pressing enter.

Actual Results:  
Only fills in the location field

Expected Results:  
Should load the web page selected, like in Location field of Navigation Toolbar

Comment 1

[wing-tung Leung]

Duplicate of bug 117290?

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Hm, I think this is working as designed - the dropdown in the location dialog is a combobox, and selecting the item when pressing "enter" in the autocomplete popup should populate the input, as opposed to submitting the form.