358494 - Display search engine selection dropdown when selecting search engine with the keyboard.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[M. Ruegenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

When going to the search field (the one you get to w/ Strg+K), and using Strg+Up/Down to select a different search engine, the menu that comes up when selecting a search engine with the mouse should come up, too.
The dialog disappears either after two seconds of not using up/down or after the Strg key is released.
This 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the search field
2. Use Strg + Up/Down to change the current search engine

Actual Results:  
The new search engine is shown directly in the search bar.

Expected Results:  
The search selection drop down comes up and the new search engine is marked the same way it is when the mouse hovers over a search engine in that drop down.

Comment 1

[M. Ruegenberg]

I found out that this actually mostly works. When using Alt + Up/Down, the menu is displayed, but the current search engine is not selected.
Would still be great if it worked the way I originally proposed. (This is actually relatively easy. The file one would have to work on seems to be /browser/components/search/content/search.xml in the source tree)

Changing status to WORKSFORME.