Closed Bug 64962 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Unable to continue typing once autocomplete displayed

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 48619

People

(Reporter: moz_user, Assigned: asa)

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686)
BuildID:    Mozilla 0.7 (Build ID 2001010517)

Once a partial match is made and the autocomplete popup is displayed, you cannot
continue to type the desired URL (i.e. one that is NOT in the autocomplete
list).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open browser and go to http://www.petsmart.com
2.Now go to http://www.petco.com
3.Clear everything after "http://www." in the URL address
4.Attempt to go to http://www.pets.com

Actual Results:  Once the "p" is typed in the second URL, the autocomplete list
is displayed and further keyboard input is ignored.  The first entry in the list
is also automatically displayed in the URL field.

Expected Results:  The user should be able to continue typing WITHOUT having to
type superfast and WITHOUT having to click on the URL and fix it.

This is a general autocomplete problem since the same thing happens in email
when typing in email addresses.
Which window-manager are you using? This sounds like a problem with old sawfish,
it was fixed around version 0.30
the bug i have in mind is bug 48619. A workaround for old sawmill/sawfish is
described there.
I've got sawfish-0.31.1-0_helix_2 RPM installed.
The bug was fixed in sawfish 0.33

A workaround in earlyer versions is to change the "Focus" setting for
"When does the mouse pointer affect the input focus:" to "enter-only".

Dup of 48619


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48619 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
VERIFIED DUpe
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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