1086524 - pressing Esc when address bar is selected should return focus to window

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Vittorio Giovara]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141011015303

Steps to reproduce:

I wanted to go back one page when the address bar was selected, but without using the mouse. So I pressed backspace and it didn't work, then I pressed cmd/alt and arrow keys but it didn't work either.


Actual results:

The address was cleared out in case of backspace, and the cursor went at the beginning or at the end of it.

My keyboard was imprisoned in the address bar and the only way to exit was with a few tabs. 


Expected results:

Ideally when pressing 'esc' when the address bar is selected (and there is no more undo to it) it should return priority to the window and allow to navigate history normally.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

Press a several of Tab key may focus to page.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

I have no problem with Alt+Left on Linux even if the address bar is focused.  If I had, I'd use F6 to switch focus.

Comment 3

[Lindhe94]

A workaround is to use Tab to move focus from the address bar to the page.

Comment 4

[osbornejr]

This is still an issue. On a Mac the F6 key is very inconvenient (requires Fn key), and the Esc key just makes more sense-- it performs this function in every other pane or input box.

Comment 5

[Ronan Jouchet]

To [::dao] or anyone: I'd like to give this a stab.

Before I try to get my hands in the code, is there any good reason (UX? Backwards compatibility? Addons?) for not implementing this?
(And that would mean an eventual patch of mine would be refused 😕)

Comment 6

[dough.mean]

Still a problem in 111.0.1
I have my capslock key mapped to escape (just like many other vim users), so any other alternative key combination by comparison is just plain un-ergonomic.
I'm very much hoping that this very standard UX behavior will be implemented soon.

Comment 7

[flippidippi]

I recently switch from Chrome to Firefox and this is driving me crazy. Every other input box loses focus when pressing escape. It makes sense to do the same or at least give an option for this behavior in the address bar.

Comment 8

[flippidippi]

Attachment: Bug 1086524 - Focus window on Esc in address bar r=mak,adw,dao

When in the address bar and not a user typed value
Esc will focus the window

Comment 9

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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