* Frederik Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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...
Is this any better with the latest Iceweasel? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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