Closed Bug 1021043 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

The "highlight all" button in the search bar steals Ctrl+A

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 672607

People

(Reporter: jlong, Unassigned)

Details

At some point, on OSX my Nightly updated with a new feature: if the search bar is open, pressing Ctrl+A toggles the button "highlight all" button. This happens anywhere if the search bar is open, even if I have the URL bar focused.

Ctrl+A is a system-wide shortcut for moving to the beginning of the line. Please do not steal this shortcut, I think it's really bad UX (I can't do it in the search box anymore, but worse I can't in the URL bar). We shouldn't break the basic system-wide shortcuts.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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