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no mnemonics for items in bookmarks menu

Bug #1065167 reported by wim sturkenboom on 2012-10-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #913981: menu items without accelerators can't be accessed . Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mozilla Firefox	New	Wishlist	mozilla-bugs #800062
	Ubuntu	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The bookmarks menu as well as the history menu don't show / have mnemonics for the items in the menu. The only way to access items in these menus is by using the cursor keys (or the mouse :( )

The other menus (file, edit, view, tools and help) do have the mnemonics for the items

Example
<alt>F brings up the file menu; mnemonic V gives print preview
<alt>B brings up the bookmark menu; no option to go to an item by using a mnemonic

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 15.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: VT1705 Analog [VT1705 Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: wim 2002 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120907231657
CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7c00000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'VIA VT1705'
   Components : 'HDA:11064397,18490397,00100000'
   Controls : 34
   Simple ctrls : 19
Channel: Unavailable
Date: Wed Oct 10 19:39:55 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.222 metric 1
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.
PrefSources: prefs.js
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=15.0.1/20120907231657 (In use)
RelatedPackageVersions:
rhythmbox-mozilla 2.96-0ubuntu4.2
totem-mozilla 3.0.1-0ubuntu21.1
RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/27/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P2.60
dmi.board.name: H61M-VS.
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP2.60:bd07/27/2012:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnH61M-VS.:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) wrote on 2012-10-10:

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) on 2012-10-10

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In Mozilla Bugzilla #800062, RaduStoica (radumstoica) wrote on 2012-10-10:

The bookmarks menu as well as the history menu don't show / have mnemonics for the items in the menu. The only way to access items in these menus is by using the cursor keys (or the mouse :( )

The other menus (file, edit, view, tools and help) do have the mnemonics for the items

Example
<alt>F brings up the file menu; mnemonic V gives print preview
<alt>B brings up the bookmark menu; no option to go to an item by using a mnemonic

This has been requested in Ubuntu : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1065167

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RaduStoica (radumstoica) wrote on 2012-10-10:

Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to write this report. I've forwarded this upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800062

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-10-10

Changed in firefox:
importance:	Unknown → Wishlist
status:	Unknown → New

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) wrote on 2012-10-11:

Very sorry that I forgot to mention this. Same version of Firefox under Windows does not suffer from this problem. This is Ubuntu (or Linux) specific.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2012-10-11:

Well, Firefox does not use mnemonics for bookmark items on any platform. They're pretty pointless for dynamic content such as bookmarks and history anyway.

If you're referring to the inability to select a bookmark item by pressing the key corresponding to it's first character, then this is not a Firefox bug, but a gtk limitation. It just doesn't support that

affects:

firefox (Ubuntu) → gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2012-10-11:

It's also a duplicate

affects:	gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) wrote on 2012-10-11:

Chris, sorry to disagree but under Windows 7 it behaves as expected (items in the bookmark menu do have mnemonics and are accessible that way).

Further, if this was a gtk+2.0 limitation, why do the items in other menus have mnemonics? I might be missing something here?

I did check the other bug report (after your reference to the duplicate) but it does not quite sound the same.

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RaduStoica (radumstoica) wrote on 2012-10-11:

I think Wim is referring to the static items in the menus (such as Bookmarks->Show All Bookmarks), not the dynamic content. And, as mentioned, mnemonic keys are defined for the other submenus - he is not expecting the first letter to work, but to have a mnemonic specifically defined for each static submenu.

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) wrote on 2012-10-11:

Sorry Radu (?), I think you misunderstand.

I expect a mnemonic for each item in the bookmarks menu. If I bookmark e.g. launchpad.net/ubuntu and the description in the bookmark menu is 'Ubuntu in launchpad', I'm used to the situation where I can quickly access it using <alt>B followed by 'U'. And the mnemonic is always the first character of the description.
If I have multiple entries starting with U (e.g. 'ubuntu forums' and 'ubuntu in launchpad') I press 'U' till the desired one is selected and press <enter> to load it.

If my memory serves me well, any version of Firefox that I have used under WinXP, Win7 and Ubuntu 6.06/8.04/10.04 behaved like this. It's now with Ubuntu 12.04 in combination with Firefox 15.0.1 that this functionality has changed. I will check a standard and up-to-date 10.04 install tomorrow (time permitting) and post back in about 12 hours.

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) wrote on 2012-10-12:

#10

As promised the results for Ubuntu 10.04. It works as expected (although on this test system mnemonics are not shown). So <alt>B followed by 'L' selects the first item in the bookmark menu that starts with L. If it's the only one starting with L, it will request the page.

wim@wim-desktop:~$ sudo lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
wim@wim-desktop:~$

And firefox version 15.0.1

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RaduStoica (radumstoica) wrote on 2012-10-12:

#11

Ok, thanks for the added explanations.

This is then indeed a duplicate of bug #913981, and it is not supported by gtk, as Chris mentioned.

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wim sturkenboom (wim001) wrote on 2012-10-12:

#12

OK,

Please (try to) explain the difference between Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 with regards to this issue. After that, I will keep quiet ;)