503532 - in the tab-switch widget: Ctrl-K should either activate "search tabs" or current (web) search engine

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090710 Minefield/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090710 Minefield/3.6a1pre

When the tab-switching widget is active Ctrl-K (Cmd+K on Mac) has no effect, but it should either have the same effect as Ctrl-F (or Cmd+F) and search open tabs or close the widget and search current search engine (such as Yahoo). If it will search tabs, the search box should change from user-selected search engine (eg Yahoo) and to tab-search engine (with right logos and such).
Tab search should maybe list in the drop-down at the searchbox (and either point to some about:tabs?q=search page or pop up the widget).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open 3+ tabs
2.press Ctrl/Cmd-tab and release tab (but not Ctrl/Cmd)
3.press K (Ctrl/Cmd and K should now be held down and no others)
Actual Results:  
[Nothing happens]

Expected Results:  
A:the "search tabs" box should be activated [note:Ctrl-F already does this]
 or
B:the widget should close and the search box (by default on the right side of the awesomebar/URLbar) should get the focus

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

I'm leaning towards focusing the panel's search field. Based on bug 465076, this would be a two-line patch.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Boriss, any thoughts on this?

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The search field has been removed in the latest version of the Ctrl-Tab UI.