273021 - Ctrl-a should jump to the beginning of the text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 260572

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[seph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Ctrl-a should jump to the beginning of a line of text, not highlight all. Since
that was the behavior in the mozilla I'm using (1.7b) this is a change. Was it
intentional, or accidental? It makes using firefox much less pleasant.

google finds at least a couple of blog entries with similar complaints.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Firefox respects the default settings for gnome keybord shortcuts. There are
tips in bug 260572 and
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Emacs_Keybindings_(Firefox) about
seting emacs as the default shortcuts.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260572 ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Just for reference, that link has the extra parenthesis at the end.

Bugzilla should get this one right:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Emacs_Keybindings_(Firefox))