455492 - Scrolling through search engines without moving the mouse

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Hendrik Lönngren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

It would be a really nice feature if one could scroll through the search engines in the search bar e.g. by pressing Super and using the scroll wheel.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You already can - it's Cmd+Scroll on Mac, Ctrl+Scroll on Windows/Linux. You need to hover over the search bar, though.

Comment 2

[Hendrik Lönngren]

Oh I see, thanks. But that is not so much use since you have to move the mouse there anyway, and, more importantly, the text is not selected afterwards.

Comment 3

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

If the text's selected, then the searchbar's focused and you can change engines using ctrl/cmd+up/down.
I don't think it'd be very useful to add a special key combo just for scrolling though the engines with a mouse from anywhere in the app. Especially given that you're going to need to execute that search at some point - either by clicking the search button or pressing enter (which in the case of the keyboard method already has the shortcut mentioned above).