42858 - [RFE] Bookmarks in menu should have mnemonics

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 67952

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Kirill]

User-Agent: Mozilla M16
BuildID:    2000061311

It is important to be able to access bookmarks using keyboard
shortcuts. It would be fine if the Bookmarks menu worked the same
way standard Windows menus work: pressing a symbol on the keyboard
selects the menu item that starts with that symbol. If that's the
only item in that folder (submenu) that starts with that symbol,
then it effectively clicks that item, that is, if it's a submenu
it opens it, if it's a bookmark it navigates to the bookmark's URL.
One way to achieve that on Windows would be to have an option to
make Mozilla use the standard Windows menus instead of whatever
it is using now.

Even better would be to have an ability to designate a hotkey for
every bookmark at will, for example by prefixing a letter in a
bookmark's name with an ampersand, or maybe there would be a new
bookmark property for that.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Right now the only way to navigate Bookmarks menu with the keyboard
is by using arrow keys, which is even slower than using the mouse.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

RFE so confirming, but there's a couple of issues here...

seems to me that some of these issues would be general menu enhancements that 
wouldn't be specific to the bookmarks menu. However, I do agree that the 
bookmarks need to be more easily accessible from the keyboard...afaik, at the 
moment there's no way to scroll menus with scrollbars from the keyboard.  
perhaps this better fits under keyboard navigation?

Comment 2

[Chris McAfee]

future

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 47199.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 79 Bookmarks bugs to Ben.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

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Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

*** Bug 59538 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Netscape Nav Triage Team: changing component to keyboard navigation

Comment 7

[:deanis74]

There's a more general bug on this, applying to all menus.  All in favor of
duping this for 67952.

Comment 8

[Ralph Hartley]

This bug is a dupe of Bug 67952 in the sense that fixing that bug would
probibally fix this one, and different solutions to both bugs would not be good.

Also the discussion on the other bug mentioned patches.

I am interested in this bug because a friend of mine decided not to use Netscape
6 because it doesn't have this feature. For a long time he used Nescape 2, or
something like that, which did.

Comment 9

[:deanis74]

Duping this in favor of the more general bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67952 ***

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
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platform[s]), before reopening.