Package: epiphany-browser Version: 1.6.5-2 Severity: normal One of the things I do quite often, up to tens of times a day, is look up a particular bug by number. These often happen sequentially, one after the other. I therefore type in control-L (to move focus to and select all of the text in the URL box in the toolbar, i.e., the URL to the previous bug I was looking at), right-arrow (to unselect and move cursor to the end of the box), control-backspace (to remove the bug number from the end of the URL), type in the new number, and then press Enter.
The way the completion thing works is that if the current text in the URL box is a prefix of one or more of the URLs in the history list, those URLs are shown in a drop-down list under the URL box. If I want to, I can then use the up/down arrow keys to select one. So far so good. The problem is that depending on timing, Epiphany sometimes (more often if I'm typing fast, it seems to me) decides to not just list the URLs but also selects the first one. This means that if I press Enter, the selected URL in the list is selected, even if I have since typed in some more text into the URL box. When I'm hack mode, I can type really, really fast, and it seems that I'm typing faster than what Epiphany can react to. As a result, up to tens of times per day, I go to the *wrong* bug page. This is really, really annoying. It is so annoying that it can drop me right out of hack mode, resulting in at least fifteen minutes of lost productivity. This happens, of course, with any other sets of pages as well, as long as what I am editing the URL box triggers the drop-down list to appear. I can avoid it happening by introducing artificial delays into my typing. That is also really, really annoying. I have tried to fiddle with some settings in about:config, but that doesn't seem to have any effect. I don't know if this is an Epiphany bug, a GTK+ bug, or perhaps a Mozilla bug, since I'm not familiar with the internals, but I assume it is an Epiphany bug. I haven't had such trouble with any other app, although, admittedly, none of my other apps have quite the same kind of usage patterns as Epiphany does. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on: ii dbus-1 0.23.4-8 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-8 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gconf2 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.10.1-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii iso-codes 0.49-1 ISO language, territory, currency ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.10.2-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome2-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.10.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Session Management ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li ii libxml2 2.6.22-2 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-2 XSLT processing library - runtime ii mozilla-browser 2:1.7.12-1 The Mozilla Internet application s ii mozilla-psm 2:1.7.12-1 The Mozilla Internet application s ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends: ii epiphany-extensions 1.6.6-1 Extensions for Epiphany web browse ii yelp 2.10.0-3 Help browser for GNOME 2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
