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Mac omnibox keyword mode handling does not match Windows |
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Issue descriptionGoogle Chrome 49.0.2623.87 (Official Build) (64-bit) Revision d177478d466b84ab06f0f48081fc30e3b04be6ca-refs/branch-heads/2623@{#592} OS Mac OS X What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) Create a custom search engine named "argh", pointing to something like http://foo.com/q=%s (2) Type "argh " in the omnibox to enter keyword mode for "argh" What is the expected output? 1. An omnibox dropdown that is not confusing. What do you see instead? 1. An omnibox dropdown that is confusing. See screenshot "confusion". Compare the highlighted top item in the dropdown with what's in the omnibox itself. I would expect the screenshot to look like "extra space". This is what happens if I type an extra space after entering keyword mode. This display makes a lot more sense to me. By the way, in either of these cases, if I press enter, I go nowhere and the omnibox ends up cleared. (The default match doesn't have a destination.) That seems okay, not great. I don't know what I'd want. I'm just surprising pressing enter doesn't go anywhere, and there's no indication that enter is disabled. If you enter text in keyword mode, everything looks fine. Screenshot "text"
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Mar 17 2016
This is a Macism, I think. Things work more consistently for me on Windows. I don't know who owns the Mac omnibox at this point. Mike, can you triage?
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Mar 17 2016
Now sure how this is a "macism", i think it should behave like the "extra space" image. Curious at what point this regressed, i'm sure it used to work. Marking for Mac triage.
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Mar 17 2016
Sorry, by Macism I didn't mean this was idiomatic on Mac, merely that it was broken only on Mac. On Windows in my testing this behaves as you and Mark suggest (which I agree is correct). I would be surprised if this were a recent regression, and in fact unsurprised if it turned out not to be a regression at all.
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Mar 17 2016
It's been in this state for as long as I remember (probably at least two years, maybe forever).
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Mar 18 2016
Observing the same behavior on Windows 7 and MAC (10.11.3) for Google Chrome Stable Version - 49.0.2623.87 Screen-recordings are attached. @mpearson: Could you please have a look at the attached videos and let us know if we are missing any steps here, which would help us in triaging it further. Thank you.
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Mar 18 2016
@6: You're not observing the same behavior. Your videos demonstrate the precise bug mpearson is reporting, on Mac only. Type the keyword, press space, don't type anything else. Look in the dropdown. The platforms differ. Looking at these reminded me we already have a bug on this. I would love to see it implemented.
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Mar 18 2016
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Mar 20 2016
mpearson@ - I am really not understanding the problem you're describing here (sorry). Can you please explain it in more detail? I am not a Windows person, and it's hard for me to tell from your description what needs to change in the Mac implementation.
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Mar 20 2016
shrike@: See the original report on this bug. In short, if you enter keyword mode but don't type anything, the dropdown should look like the image "extra space", not the image "confusion". |
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Comment 1 by mpear...@chromium.org
, Mar 17 2016Status: Assigned (was: Available)