82494 - Allow users to click Search button in main toolbar with one click

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 66834

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Todd Pringle]

Current behavior with new autocomplete:

Typing a search term in the url bar activates drop down, but if a user prefers
to click the search button vice use the drop-down, they have to click twice -
once to change focus and once to click the search button.  This is annoying and
users may think the search button doesn't work if they click on it once and
nothing happens.

Desired behavior:

Type a search term and be able to use the autocomplete search or the search
button with one click.

German, does this seem right to you?

Comment 1

[Todd Pringle]

Nominating nsbeta1 - we should try to implement this for rtm.

Comment 2

[doctor__j]

I have filed a more general bug in Bug 82173.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

this is a bug in the toolkit, not the intended behavior.. I believe it's a dupe
- anyone listening seen the bug about popups stealing focus or not allowing
other events to go through?

Comment 4

[german]

yes clicking the search button should dismiss the menu popdown in the url bar. 
I suspect like Alex that has sth to do with menu behavior in XP Toolkit...

Comment 5

[Claudius Gayle]

john, can you wrestle up the bug alec is talking about?

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

Actually this is feature, not a bug, I believe. (Although personally, I
don't prefer this behaviour),  the menu will capture mouse clicks until
dismissed.

So, we could go with 
 bug 66834 "location bar drop-down should not block clicks outside of itself"

Or, maybe bug 21390 "Clicking on Widget or link does nothing if menu open"
(marked INVALID by german because "I find it much preferrable for our 
audience to interpret the outside click as a menu cancel gesture..."

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

well, for now, I'll mark a dupe of the open bug, and mention the INVALID bug in
the open bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66834 ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.