301735 - escape to disable caret browsing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194937

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

My vendor has started shipping Firefox with accessibility.browsewithcaret
enabled by default.

It seems like a useful idea, but the F7 keyboard shortcut to disable it is not
obvious enough.

There is also a trend to use combinations of Control, Alt, and Shift for
keyboard accessibility.  Newer keyboards from Microsoft and Logitech override
the default keyboard codes for F-keys, so using F-keys for tasks is becoming
suboptimal.

I quite like the way the Escape key works to disable the type-ahead find bar,
and would like the Escape key to also disable caret browsing.

Comment 1

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

This will be fixed by bug 194937.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194937 ***