Bugzilla

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre

Trying to get out of FF Fullscreen Mode, pressing ESC feels like an intuitive way to do so... but unfortunately, ESC does nothing.
Users might expect this behaviour as it works in other common programs like MS Word or IrfanView.
Are there any reasons against having ESC as a shortcut for exiting Fullscreen Mode? If not, this would be really nice (and probably really easy) to have!
Getting out of Fullscreen is not very intuitive at present (no visual clues, and F11 hard to remember).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into FF Fullscreen Mode
2. Press ESC, hoping to get out of Fullscreen Mode
3.
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Fullscreen mode should be exited on pressing ESC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into FF Fullscreen Mode: F11 *or* View > Fullscreen *or* Appmenu > [↙↗] 
2. Press ESC, hoping to get out of Fullscreen mode (which works virtually everywhere else, both inside and outside Firefox)

Actual Results:  
* Nothing

Expected Results:  
* ESC should exit browser Fullscreen mode (**at least** after any other uses of ESC event have been consumed)
* ux-consistency with existing use of ESC to exit all other flavors of fullscreen in FF and many other apps

I can't see any substantial reasons against having ESC as a shortcut for exiting Fullscreen Mode. Even in bug 997528 where online games are asking to be notified of ESC event so as to optionally prevent ESC from exiting full screen mode (as it currently does), ESC has been confirmed as the swiss-knife, one-for-all, de facto standard 'exit full screen' API.

This bug/RFE has been approved by Alex Limi (:limi) from Firefox UX in comment 8.
11 years after this has been reported (and counting), it would be great if Firefox could finally fix this anomaly of ESC *not* exiting Full screen mode...

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090116 Minefield/3.2a1pre

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into FF Fullscreen Mode: F11 *or* View > Fullscreen *or* Appmenu > [↙↗] 
2. Press ESC, hoping to get out of Fullscreen mode (which works virtually everywhere else, both inside and outside Firefox)

Actual Results:  
* Nothing

Expected Results:  
* ESC should exit browser Fullscreen mode (**at least** after any other uses of ESC event have been consumed)
* ux-consistency with existing use of ESC to exit all other flavors of fullscreen in FF and many other apps

I can't see any substantial reasons against having ESC as a shortcut for exiting Fullscreen Mode. Even in bug 997528 where online games are asking to be notified of ESC event so as to optionally prevent ESC from exiting full screen mode (as it currently does), ESC has been confirmed as the swiss-knife, one-for-all, de facto standard 'exit full screen' API. It's even explicitly supported as an easy and reliable way of "getting out of abusive sites".

This bug/RFE has been approved by Alex Limi (:limi) from Firefox UX in comment 8.
11 years after this has been reported (and counting), it would be great if Firefox could finally fix this anomaly of ESC *not* exiting Full screen mode...