354637 - [Mac] ctrl-n and ctrl-p navigation for autocomplete entries

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Rahul Abrol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060817 Firefox/2.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060817 Firefox/2.0b2

control-n maps to the down arrow key (control-p -> up) for the location/search bar and forms in safari, camino and opera.

firefox has tab (shift-tab) for the url bar but nothing handy for form autocomplete suggestions.

if someone could point out where this is specified in the code i wouldn't mind just fixing this for my own use.

sorry if this should have filed under core and/or location bar and autocomplete.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Rahul Abrol]

i figured out how to do this with the keyconfig extension (thanks to firemacs.xpi):

var controller = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/autocomplete/controller;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAutoCompleteController);
controller.handleKeyNavigation(KeyEvent.DOM_VK_DOWN);

leaving as new, though it no longer concerns me.

Comment 2

[ahubl]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: This bug could affect Mac users of this release.

Comment 3

[ahubl]

The instructions for marking this as affected indicate I should be able to select the "affected" option under Firefox 57 - Status, but I only have the "?" option. Firefox 57 will almost definitely be affected.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Not going to track this for 57. This is a rather old bug, and it is doubtful that it would be a priority for 57.

Comment 5

[ahubl]

What would it take to get this prioritized for a soon-ish release?

Comment 6

[u607520]

please fix it...

Comment 7

[rajesh]

I was wondering if there is a workaround for this issue. If not, what will be the process to get this prioritized?

Comment 8

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

As far as I can tell, this bug is still valid. Is there anything that can be done to get it moving?

Comment 9

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

(In reply to David Teller [:Yoric] (please use "needinfo") from comment #8)
> As far as I can tell, this bug is still valid. Is there anything that can be
> done to get it moving?

Hello David - Probably up to the Engineering team to review and decide.

Comment 10

[Helder S Ribeiro]

I would like to add my support to this issue.

This is not an enhancement, it is a bug. Is is standard for macOS applications to have these shortcuts: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236, and users expect them to be consistent.

This bug has been reported multiple times, the oldest one over 16 years ago. People regularly complain about it on the Internet.

These are a few links I could dig up:

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229473
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354637
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282097#c9
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804845
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815735
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389221
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=402383
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=1169591
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=1415542
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1466436
* https://support.mozilla.org/en*US/questions/1220408
* https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1009843148527263744
* https://twitter.com/kbdluv/status/946479640650113025
* https://twitter.com/tdubrownik/status/930820405236965376

Please consider prioritizing it for the next release. Thank you very much!