424726 - awesomebar does not allow you to delete individual items using <delete>

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Danny O'Brien]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4

The old location bar let you delete individual suggested items by cursoring down and then hitting the delete key (I think it used to be shift-delete). Now there's no way to delete suggestions -- something that I noticed someone else pointing out on an online forum as a flaw in FF3, and now I am very aware of.

Basically, it's an issue of privacy -- people would like a way to pluck out certain URLs from the suggestion list.

If doing this is hard in the autocompletion window itself, perhaps we should point out how to do it in the new history dialog? I have a feeling it will become a FAQ when FF3 leaves beta.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

WFM on the trunk

Comment 2

[Ryan A. C.]

WFM on trunk (in fact it's the reason I filed Bug 424573)

Comment 3

[Danny O'Brien]

Maybe this is just a Linux thing then? On FF3b4 on Linux, hitting delete after selecting an item using the cursor-up or cursor-down just deletes the last character in the URL (because the address has been copied into the location bar, and the focus shifted to the location bar too).

Comment 4

[Sylvain Pasche]

Works for me on Linux with beta 4 or trunk. What are you doing exactly? I'm doing the following:

1) Type "http" in the location bar
2) A list of URL's appear
3) Hit <cursor-down> three times
3) Hit <delete>

Then the selected entry is deleted, no character is deleted from the URL in the address bar instead.

Comment 5

[Danny O'Brien]

I asked a collegue to do this on Mac OS X FF beta, and they had the same issue, which leads me to think it may be a keycode issue (I have Linux running on a Macbook, so the delete key is the same). Here's the test again:

1) Type "http" in the location bar
2) A list of URL's appear
3) Hit <cursor-down> three times
3) Hit <delete>

Rightmost character is deleted from the URL in the address bar, not the entry.

Comment 6

[Danny O'Brien]

(Actually,  what happens is that the URL in the selected entry is copied to the address bar, and then *its* rightmost character is deleted).

Comment 7

[Danny O'Brien]

Okay, I've found the problem -- you need to type <fn>-<Delete> on a Macbook to delete the URL. Anyone have any good suggestions as to where I can document this?

Comment 8

[Robin Whittleton]

Still not working for me on a standard Apple desktop keyboard: none of delete, backspace, or apple+backspace do anything to delete entries for me.

Comment 9

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Robin: shift+delete should work.

Comment 10

[Robin Whittleton]

Aha! thanks, WORKSFORME now.

Comment 11

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified