650758 - Bookmark search in sidebar: support Enter and Down-Arrow keys for smoother workflow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 390895

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Luke Usherwood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

A usability issue exists for keyboard-oriented users with the bookmark sidebar. For an example, please see "Steps to reproduce" and suggested improvements below.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl+B to show the bookmarks sidebar (GOOD)
2. Type a few characters to filter the tree (GREAT!)
3. Want to select the first or second item (UM...) 

Actual Results:  
To open the first filtered item (apparently) requires pressing TAB, SPACE, ENTER. (The SPACE may be especially confusing for novice users.)

To open the second filtered item requires: TAB, DOWN-ARROW (x2), ENTER. 


Expected Results:  
It would be great if:
 * To open the first filtered item: ENTER. 
 * To open the second filtered item: DOWN-ARROW (x2) then ENTER. 



Examples I'm aware of supporting these accelerated key sequences: Google search website, Eclipse development environment.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Reproduced.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110515 Firefox/6.0a1

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Yeah, this is annoying.