68890 - clicking a url in autocomplete drop-down should go to that url

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get the url autocomplete drop-down to drop down.
  a. Type www.mozilla.org into the location bar and press enter.
  b. Type www.mozilla.org/hacking into the location bar and press enter.
  c. Type www.moz into the location bar and wait for the drop-down.
2. Click on any of the items in the drop-down.

Result: location bar text replaced with url clicked on, but Mozilla doesn't 
start loading the url until I hit enter.
Expected: Mozilla should start loading that url immediately.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

I disagree with this. Reassign to german until we can get the spec to say one
thing or the other.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

cc mpt

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Jesse's right. The auto-complete menu should act like any other menu -- if you 
click on an item, you activate it.

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

yeah I'd like to hear useability's take on this. If we change this behavior then you could
never add anything to the end of the selected url.
Suppose(following the repro steps) you wanted to go to www.mozilla.org/hacking/hack.html
for the first time. I'd type 'www.mo', pick from the menu and then type the rest, mozilla
having saved me some keystrokes(the examples could be much longer).

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Not at all. Type `www.mo', use the down arrow key to choose
`http://www.mozilla.org' from the auto-completion menu, then type
`/hacking/hack.html'. Since your hands are already on the keyboard, it's going
to be quicker selecting the menu item from the keyboard than with the mouse, anyway.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

To make sure fixing this bug doesn't make bug 69095 worse: clicking an item 
should replace the location bar text *and* go to that url.

Comment 7

[hangas]

Sending to Joe

Comment 8

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

fixed

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying claudius' Fixed bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

if you think this particular bug is not fixed, please make sure of the following
before reopening:

a. retest with a *recent* trunk build.
b. query bugzilla to see if there's an existing, open bug (new, reopened,
assigned) that covers your issue.
c. if this does need to be reopened, make sure there are specific steps to
reproduce (unless already provided and up-to-date).

thanks!

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