Open Bug 1412510 Opened 7 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Firefox should show a 'delete' button at the end of each saved/suggested form history entry

Categories

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Form Manager
Type:
enhancement

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()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: sdescarpentries, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: ux-affordance)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 Build ID: 20170928210252 Steps to reproduce: Double click on a form entry. A login one. Actual results: Got filling suggestion. Including my last mis-typed login. Expected results: I should have been able to delete this bad saved filling-suggestion / form-entry history. A red cross should have been provided at the end of the suggestion line, which would have deleted the entry. Idem in the address bar.
Version: 52 Branch → unspecified
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Form Manager
Keywords: ux-affordance
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
You can press Delete key to delete the entry, but I agree that the UI should be more discoverable.
Bug 675818 covers the awesomebar case and I thought we had another bug for form history but I can't find it.
See Also: → https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675818
Summary: Firefox should show a red 'delete' cross at the end of each saved/suggested form entry (and history suggestion in address bar) → Firefox should show a 'delete' button at the end of each saved/suggested form history entry
Bug 340824 was closed with a "Use extensions." comment, but it is no longer possible to write an extension that modifies auto-complete popups.
Priority: -- → P3

(In reply to Masatoshi Kimura [:emk] from comment #1)

You can press Delete key to delete the entry, but I agree that the UI should
be more discoverable.

I'm not sure when it broke, but it is no longer possible to press the Delete key to remove history suggestions. I haven't managed to find a bug report about it yet.

Hiding such a useful / important feature behind "hover + key-combo" isn't intuitive. The delete key is not available on all keyboards (eg: MacBook). Some systems use the 'fn + backspace' combination to access "Delete", but either Henrik is correct (and shift+delete does not work any more) or the fn+backspace+shift combo just doesn't work on MacBooks. Either way, this adds to the already overly-complex method of an important feature. Recently, we had an internal website change its subdomain, and a slack channel erupted in to a bitching session about how inaccessible this feature is.

The quickest way to nuke a URL (eg: 'mozilla.org') from your bar is:

  1. Open the History sidebar (4 mouse clicks, or CTRL+h)
  2. Type the URL
  3. Select all (DON'T SHIFT+click! Use CTRL+a)
  4. Right-click and delete (no key combo works)

To be fair, Chrome/Chromium are just as bad.

Shift-Delete does work, but at the time of my comment I didn't know about Shift-Delete. Found out about it by doing a different search later and never amended my comment. Plain Delete doesn't work and apparently nobody bothered to make sure to let the users know about this change. (Just like how Chrome kept popping up a popup about "Backspace to go back" no longer working — as annoying and stupid as that was, at least you had an idea that the system changed and you're doing something that you should be doing differently in the future)

Re: Macs — the Mac key bindings and behaviour differ wildly from everyone else's, so I suspect an entirely different combo could be defined (Cmd+Shift+D? is that used anywhere?).

Severity: normal → S3
Duplicate of this bug: 1389907
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