62214 - logitech keyboard hotkey configuration won't recognize URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P5)

Description

[Brendan A. Niemira]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; I)
BuildID:    2000120704

Logitech cordless keyboard's "iTouch" configuration allows launch of browser to 
a specified URL with one hotkey. To configure the hotkey, you bring up the 
desired URL and press ctrl-hotkey. This works in Netscape and IE, but when tried 
with Mozilla, the keyboard configuration message says it can't acquire the URL 
from the browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla, open desired URL.
2. As per instructions in the Logitech iTouch wireless keyboard configuration, 
press ctrl-hotkey to make the open webpage the target of the hotkey's action.

Actual Results:  Configuration window doesn't recognize Mozilla as being a 
browser. It doesn't accept URL info from Mozilla.

Expected Results:  The URL currently being viewed in Mozilla should have been 
accepted by the keyboard configuration software as the target for the hotkey's 
action.

If a Netscape window is open while trying to use the Mozilla window to configure 
the hotkeys, the keyboard configuration software will ignore Mozilla (the active 
window) and behave as though the only browser open is Netscape (the inactive 
window).
I list this as minor because the browser function isn't impared in any way, just 
the hotkeys.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Reproter is this still a problem in the latest nightlies?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

(and with the latest version of Logitech's software?)

Comment 3

[Ian Tommins ('thelem')]

Verified using logitech cordless desktop pro with build 2001010904

Comment 4

[Fabian Guisset]

Isn't this a problem with logitech, not with us?

Comment 5

[Michael Hendy]

Seeing this on NT4, using Build 2001011604 and iTouch 1.52

Also, it's not specific to the Cordless keyboards, it occurrs with any iTouch
keyboard.

Works in 4.x

Appears the Logitech iTouch software can't read the contents of the Location
field. Good point though, our problem or theirs?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Probably our problem, in the sense that they'll be looking for a native widget. 
If they want to support Mozilla browsers, we'll need to give them some way to 
get this info. However, it could be argued that there's a security risk here - 
allowing other code to see where you are going in your browser. This way, 
anything you install could be a trojan web tracker...

Gerv

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

This isn't a big deal securitywise.  Most browsers have had similar features 
(such as bug 31343), and if a program on your computer really wants to do stuff 
to your browser, it can without the help of the people who wrote the browser.

Comment 8

[jag (Peter Annema)]

This will probably involve talking to the Logitech people and pointing them at
the URLWidget (a native text control with the current url as its value) we
create on Windows for Media Metrix.

Comment 9

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 10

[Peter Trudelle]

mass reassign of pchen bookmark bugs to ben

Comment 11

[John Levon]

*** Bug 125726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 138016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 154960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Olaf Peter]

short workaround to solve this problem:

use the iTouch-configuration program and enter for each key
- function is "start program"
- program to start is "C:\PROGRA~1\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Mozilla.exe
http://www.url.com"
These solution starts the mozilla browser with the given url.

Comment 15

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 156128 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Dan Backes]

This also applies to pushing the hotkeys if you manually set them in the iTouch
configuration. For example I press my "home" key, the text appears on my monitor
indicating that the key was recognized by my computer, but Mozilla does nothing.

Comment 17

[Olaf Peter]

the problem still exists with the actual release Mozilla 1.3/20030312 and the
actual version itouch 2.15

Comment 18

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 209778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 20

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

this is a bug in the itouch software. Mozillca can't do anything to fix that.
-> invalid

Comment 21

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 328097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***