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Bug 394914 - Link found using type-ahead find sometimes doesn't respond to Enter key
Link found using type-ahead find sometimes doesn't respond to Enter key
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595347
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Interface
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-10 03:10 UTC by Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Modified: 2009-10-13 20:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2007-01-10 03:10:49 UTC 
To navigate to a link with the keyboard in Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac:
(I know nobody uses IE/Mac any more, but it's an interesting comparison)
1.  Type a unique case-insensitive substring from the link text.
2.  Press Return.

To navigate to a link with the keyboard in Firefox 2.0.0.1, Ubuntu 6.10:
1.  Press the / key.
2.  Type a unique case-insensitive substring from the link text.
3.  Press Enter.

To navigate to a link with the keyboard in Epiphany 2.16.1, Ubuntu 6.10:
1.  Press the / key.
2.  Type a unique case-insensitive substring from the link text.
3.  Press Tab.
4.  Press Tab again.
5.  Press Shift+Tab.
6.  Press Enter.

This is both extremely slow and practically undiscoverable. I suggest eliminating steps 3, 4, and 5, and ideally step 1 too.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2007-01-10 12:19:29 UTC 
Actually it works for me without steps 3,4,5: press '/', type text, press enter.
The only problem is that you don't see the link is focused due to mozilla focus brokenness :(

We had a bug about autostarting typeaheadfind where we made it not autostart, bug 141963 ...
Comment 2 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2007-01-20 13:03:09 UTC 
That's interesting. Sometimes it works for me without steps 3~5, but usually they're required. Still trying to work out why that is.
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-02-18 02:30:07 UTC 
mpt, any progress?
Comment 4 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2007-02-18 05:17:27 UTC 
Not yet, sorry.
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-03-25 02:59:28 UTC 
moving out of NEEDINFO state.
Comment 6 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2009-10-13 20:07:52 UTC 
This is like bug 595347 (which is about Webkit), so I'm marking this a duplicate. Ephy/Mozilla is a dead end.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 595347 ***