348142 - Escape key has different behavior between Address Bar and Search Bar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[jes5199]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1)

In the address bar, pressing Escape selects the entire address.
In the search bar, pressing Escape does nothing, but pressing Escape twice clears the field.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the address bar.
2. Press escape.
3. Observe selection.
4. Click the search bar.
5. Press escape.
6. In frustration, press escape again.
7. Observe annihilation.

Actual Results:  
Selection and annihilation, respectively.

Expected Results:  
Consistency.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060809 Minefield/3.0a1

In Firefox 2.0 and trunk, hitting escape in the search bar does nothing at all. Not sure how this is handled on win32...

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

I filed bug 350079 for comment 1 separately since it's a minor functionality regression (since url and search would respond essentially identically to "esc esc type" before), but it probably would make sense to fix as suggested here rather than to the fx1.5 behavior

Comment 3

[Seetu]

I would like to work on this bug, Can you please assign me this?