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Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.6-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
I will give an example to illustrate my point. I have tried it out in
"safe mode".
(1) I enter "minimal entropy martingale measure" in Google's search
text box
(2) When the results come up, I want change my search text to "minimal
martingale measure". I click just after the word "entropy" in the text
box at the top of the results page, and the completion "minimal
entropy martingale measure" appears appears in a menu below the box
(even though that same string is also already in the box). (Actually,
this happens only about 50% of the time, it may be necessary to try
clicking at different parts of the word) Since I had to click on the
search box to change the text, my cursor is right near the box. When I
take my hand off the mouse to type, the cursor happens to move down a
few pixels (this happens a lot when I use a trackpad, but also when I
use my optical mouse), briefly crossing over the menu of completions.
(3) This results in the single completion being highlighted.
Inexplicably, it stays highlighted even when my mouse has moved off of
it to below the bottom of the menu. Even more strangely, it stays
highlighted when I start typing in the text box.
(4) I hit delete a few times to delete the word "entropy", but the
completion "minimal martingale martingale measure", the text of my
original search, is still highlighted.
(5) I hit enter. This doesn't result in a new search with the new
contents of the search box, as I had hoped; but it results in the
completion (a useless completion, no less, since it was the original
text of the box) being selected, and the edit I just made
disappearing, and the text "minimal martingale martingale measure"
returning to the search box, and no search happening.
So, completion as implemented in this program (is it possible to turn
it off, by the way?) is basically incompatible with my mouse moving
down a few pixels after I take my hand off of it. That seems rather
demanding - the mouse is an analog device and the cursor can't be
expected to stay 100% still all the time. In general, it seems like a
good idea for a highlighted menu selection to become unhighlighted
when the user starts typing, even in the case where it is still under
the cursor (which it is not, in my example above), since typing
generally indicates a lack of intent to click.
Thank you in advance - I hope that this can be eventually fixed...
Frederik
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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
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ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:27:16PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > > I have tried Ubuntu firefox 5.0.
> > >
> > > Above is an an old email in which I list the things that need to be
> > > fixed, at the very bottom. According to my testing, it appears they
> > > have made change #2, but not 1, 3, 4 or 5. I guess #2 was the most
> > > important one. I am a bit surprised that #5 is not done yet (is this
> > > correct?).
> >
> > For #5:
> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Form%20autocomplete#w_prevent-firefox-from-storing-form-entries
>
> Aha!
>
> > > The others are low-priority.
> >
> > I'd even say they're more a matter of taste.
> > All in all, can we agree the bug can be closed?
>
> Yes, thank you.
Closing, then.
Thanks
Mike
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