870753 - unable to remove the "Switch to tab" option to left by using a backspace, and so I cannot open the same site twice

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 743323

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Kent Pawar]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

1. I open google.com in a tab
2. On the 2nd tab I start typing "go..", then google.com appears in the below drop-down list. The first result is the "Switch to tab" entry for google.com.
3. I then click on the [Down arrow] key once, and "Switch to tab: google.com" appears in the address bar. (I do this to avoid having to type the whole address)
4. I then went to the left most part of the address-bar and press [backspace] to remove the "Switch to tab:" label


Actual results:

5. But the label still remained there.. 


Expected results:

6. In a previous version, I could go to the left most part of the address-bar and press backspace to remove the "Switch to tab:" label, and then click on Enter to visit google.com But I notice this no longer works.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

With
2012-10-02-03-05-26-mozilla-central-firefox-18.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64,
2012-11-19-03-07-25-mozilla-central-firefox-19.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64,
21.0 Beta,
after selecting the item from the drop-down, backspace does not remove the "Switch to tab:" label for me unless it edits the URL.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Information from bug 530209 comment 24: holding Alt removes Switch-to-Tab.