314099 - $app_dir/res/builtin/userHTMLBindings.xml no longer works

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201011

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[steve rader]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

With my previous mozilla installs (1.4.3) ala RHEL3 and older,
I've been using $app_dir/res/builtin/userHTMLBindings.xml to
hack custom vi-like key bindings (e.g j, k, l, h, ^f, ^b, G)

Somewhere between 1.7.8 and 1.7.12, $app_dir/res/builtin 
disappeared, and my custom key bindings hack via the above
file stopped working.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create app_dir/res/builtin/userHTMLBindings.xml with valid handler bindings
2. start mozilla
3. notice now the valid handler binding doesn't work

Actual Results:  
nothing/the default key binding behaviour

Expected Results:  
the new key binding behaviour

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201011 ***

Comment 2

[Jochem Huhmann]

As of 1.5RC1 platformHTMLbindings.xml was hidden away in toolkit.jar and now, with 1.5RC2 it has seemingly totally vanished.

All this is piling up to a large heap of bug-spaghetti. Changing keyboard bindings per user has never worked and instead of fixing that bug, the only workaround to modify bindings has changed *two* times without anything in the releasenotes to the effect that there is *no* way anymore to change keybindings. 

And that with a default configuration that is (at least on MacOS X) clearly incomplete, since the Emacs-like shortcuts work with all Cocoa apps (like Safari or Mail out of the box. No known way to fix that with Firefox 1.5RC2. I'm back to Safari for now.