773344 - Investigation - searchbar suggestions not chosen after highlighting and pressing ENTER

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P4)

Description

[tarek.said.info]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

When I type the text "He" in the searchbar
And it shows me suggestions "Hell", "Hello", "Helen"
And I highlight suggestion "Hello"
And I press ENTER on my keyboard


Actual results:

It searches for the text "He"


Expected results:

It should search for the text "Hello"

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Reproducible with latest Nightly on Win 7 x86.

Comment 2

[(inactive) Nihanth Subramanya [:nhnt11]]

Hey, can you clarify how you are highlighting the suggestion?
That is, are you typing, then moving the mouse over a suggestion and then pressing enter?
Or are you typing, then pressing the up/down arrow keys until the suggestion is selected and then pressing enter?

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This works fine for me if I highlight the suggestion by pressing the arrow keys and then enter. It also works if I select with the mouse.

If you were just hovering over the suggestion with the mouse, that isn't actually changing the suggestion - the hover effect there is to just highlight what the mouse is over.

Without more information I don't think we can improve anything here.