firefox URL drop down chooser in address bar doesn't work with arrow keys

[David Mandelberg]

When you type in the begining of multiple visited URLs (i.e. if you've gone to
foo.com/foobar and foo.com/fooquux and you type in foo.com/foo) in the address
bar and use the up/down keys on the keyboard, the list is refined with each
up/down. The list shouldn't be changed until you edit the text in the address
bar or hit enter.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Thank you for your bug report. However, this is a firefox design issue and not a
bug. If you consider it a bug, please file it with the firefox developers. If
you want to go back to the original text in the location bar after you browsed
through the list, hit [ESC].

[David Mandelberg (dseomn)]

That's not what I meant. It makes sence not to go back to the original. The
problem is that I can't browse through the entire list.

For example:

Bar: http://a
List:
 * http://ab
 * http://abc
 * http://ac
 * http://ad

I hit Down.

Bar: http://ab
List:
 * http://ab
 * http://abc

I.e. when I hit down, ac and ad disappear, it's impossible to reach 'ac' with
the keyboard ('ad' is reachable with up instead of down).

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

That does not happen to me, which version of Firefox are you using?

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

This bug doesn't happen to me and I think it is probably caused by an extension,
plugin or corrupted profile. Could you please try it with a fresh profile (move
.mozilla aside) and reopen (or just comment) if you can reproduce it then.

[David Mandelberg (dseomn)]

I removed the only non-default extension I had (package mozilla-stumbleupon) and
did "mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bak" and the problem is still there.

: $; dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep -i 'firefox\|mozilla'
ii firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu19
lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
ii firefox-gnome-support 1.0.7-0ubuntu19
Support for Gnome in Mozilla Firefox
ii mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb 1.0.4lang20050515-1ubuntu3
Mozilla Firefox English language/region pack

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

I've tried this again to see if I can get it to do what you describe and it
works correctly for me. In what ways does your system differ from a vanilla
Breezy install ?

[David Mandelberg (dseomn)]

Created an attachment (id=4434)
packages not automatically installed

These are the packages I've explicitely installed (i.e. not as dependencies of
other packages). The only other change I've made that might be relavent is
setting the proxy to 127.0.0.1:8118 for privoxy and tor.

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

I see you have some uim packages installed. Does that mean you're actually
using one of those input methods ? Can you try without and see if it works then ?

[David Mandelberg (dseomn)]

I switched the input method to 'direct' (basically disabling uim) and it works
now, thanks. Just turning editing off without changing the method didn't fix it.

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

I think this should be fixed, then. Unfortunately I don't understand uim at all
and AFAICT uim is in universe. Can you please refile this bug in malone ?

[David Mandelberg (dseomn)]

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sources/uim/+bug/3027 done