Backspace history navigation broken. about chrome-type-ahead

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Indeed, I had noted the problem. I am planning to show an overlay box with the 
current 
search, that way the user will know the context he/she is (so the backspace can 
recover 
its original action safely).

I am not sure about the timeout, though. I know FF behaves that way, but 
backspace has 
no associated action. Now let's imagine we have a search, the timeout is 
reached just 
before we backspace it... we end with an unwanted 'back' action. Not an usual 
situation, 
granted, but still possible. Open a new issue if you see how to overcome this 
detail, 
though. 

Thanks for your suggestions.

Original comment by tokland on 16 Dec 2009 at 10:16

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I thought FF will also go back in history when you press backspace??

A good point about canceling at the 'wrong time'.  I'm not sure how FF handles 
that, I 
no longer have FF installed to check ;)

An easy way would be to lock down backspace after you start type-ahead finding, 
and 
release it if the user presses "esc".   Also, not to lock down backspace if the 
user 
hasn't done any typing on the page yet-- which is the issue now.

FF does have a lot of checks on the backspace key, and have a protection for if 
you hit 
backspace too many times while removing characters from your search string.  
Maybe you 
could use that same protection, and also add an extra timeout protection that 
ignores 
backspace for 1 second after the timeout or something.

Here is the code from FF (linked to the backspace function):
http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox2/source/extensions/typeaheadfind/src/nsTypeAheadF
ind.cpp
#735

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Dec 2009 at 10:55

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0.0.3 shows box with current search. 

When no box, backspace goes back.

Original comment by tokland on 18 Dec 2009 at 7:12

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The box doesn't disappear for me unless I click a link. Even when the box is 
empty it 
is still there breaking backspace history navigation. It would be nice if the 
box 
disappeared and was emptied when you click on the page just like Firefox FAYT 
works.

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Dec 2009 at 1:51

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The box disappears when you press Esc. But yes, it should also disappear when 
you click 
in the page, I'll do it. 

Original comment by tokland on 19 Dec 2009 at 10:27

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done: r17

Original comment by tokland on 19 Dec 2009 at 12:06

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Original comment by tokland on 19 Dec 2009 at 10:39

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