409868 - deleting location bar entry should select next item, not location bar text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 406179

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Harrison Chen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2

When using the delete key to delete an entry from the location bar (and thus the history), prior Firefox (2.x) behavior was to select the next item in the autocomplete list.  In Firefox 3b2, it selects the location bar text.  This makes it difficult to delete all entries matching a certain keyword.  Previously, one just had to hold down the delete key, whereas now, you have to hit delete, down, delete, down, et cetera.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Suppose you wanted to delete all Slashdot webpages from your history quickly.
1. Visit a lot of Slashdot webpages.
2. Type "slashdot" into the location bar.
3. Select the first item and hit delete.
4. Selection is now on the location bar.  Holding delete will not continue to delete all items.  Hitting delete again will not delete the next item.
Actual Results:  
One item from the list is deleted.

Expected Results:  
All items from the autocomplete list are deleted.

I am using Ubuntu Linux 7.10 running GNOME.