544847 - Need keyboard shortcut to load the first address in the drop down list menu in URL bar.

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[shankru85]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

For example, i have bookmarked several sites which starts with say "dv". when i type dv,i get a drop down list of all the sites. Most of the times i want to navigate to the first one in the list. in such a case, a keyboard shortcut would be helpful in loading the first such URL in the drop down list

Internet explorer 8 has this feature. shift+enter loads the first address in the drop down list box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.have three or more sites in the drop down list
2.no shortcut key to go to the first address.
3.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

A quick search didn't turn up a duplicate, so confirming for now.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Note, there is an add-on that may help you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7423

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

extensive search didn't turn up a dupe

Comment 4

[JP Kirsten]

I will attempt to code this keyboard shortcut as a patch for the source code for you.

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Per email request, assigning to JP Kirsten to take a crack at a fix for this.

Comment 6

[Greg]

Isn't the keyboard shortcut to accomplish what you describe the "TAB" button or the down-arrow?

Why create a shortcut to do what you describe? Type your search, use the down-arrow to select which one you want, press enter. We don't need a shortcut to select the first entry.

Mozilla has more important things to work on than this.

(In reply to shankru85 from comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> 
> For example, i have bookmarked several sites which starts with say "dv".
> when i type dv,i get a drop down list of all the sites. Most of the times i
> want to navigate to the first one in the list. in such a case, a keyboard
> shortcut would be helpful in loading the first such URL in the drop down list
> 
> Internet explorer 8 has this feature. shift+enter loads the first address in
> the drop down list box.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.have three or more sites in the drop down list
> 2.no shortcut key to go to the first address.
> 3.

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.