Bug#770530: accessibility: impossible to change the default search engine without mouse

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 31.2.0esr-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

I want to add search.kujiu.org in my ;ist of search engine, in particular to set
it by default when I enter keywords on the search and address bars.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

If I use mouse (click, list, adding, etc), it works.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

But I am unable to do the same with the keyboard. And some people cannot use
the mouse. Blind people for example use only a flat review, unable to identify
the arrow to change these settings.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

The search engine stuff should be customisab;e via about:config (with better
documentation for this), or through preferences meou. We also could do an item
to set up this in the contextual menu which can be opened while t:e focus
is in the search bar. Finally, ?e could create a keyboard binding to set this.
It's a big improvement.

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Regards,


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-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4+b1
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.1
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-13
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-1.1
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-19
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.17.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-19
ii  libvpx1                   1.3.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-8
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
pn  libgnomeui-0           <none>
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-14
pn  mozplugger             <none>

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