113242 - View>Text Zoom>Larger Keyboard Shortcut doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70141

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 

The keyboard shortcut of the command to increase font size in a viewed page is
shown on the View/Text Size menu as:

     Ctrl + + 

But it doesn't work!  When I type those characters as specified, it's 
      "Ctrl + (Shift to get to the "+" sign) +
and nothing happens. 

What you need on that menu for a shortcut is:

 Ctrl + =

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Tsu Dho Nimh, please check that a bug still happens in a recent nightly build 
(less than a week old) before filing it. Mozilla 0.9.3 is months out of date, 
and in current builds, Ctrl++ works whether or not you hold down the Shift key. 
Marking worksforme.

Comment 2

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

At issue is not the keystroke combination, but that the TEXT of the menu does
not give the CORRECT keystroke shortcut. The text of the menu is still incorrect
in Mozilla 0.9.6  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.6)
Gecko/20011120  (downloaded and installed today)

PLEASE CHANGE THE TEXT OF THIS TOOLBAR MENU: View/TextZoom/Larger
FROM   CTRL ++  
TO     CTRL +=  

"CTRL++" misleads users into typing Ctrl Shift + to get to the "+" sign, and
"CTRL++" does not workforme today on a PC with a standard PC-type keyboard (not
a mainframe or UNIX keyboard) However, "CTRL+=" does workforme today, just as it
did in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 

Comment 3

[timeless]

reporter: did you select os:'all', or did bugzilla do that for you?

<ctrl>+<shift>+<=> does not work for me. mozilla 0.9.6 release. But, this is a dupe.

For fun, none of <ctrl>+<num-equals>, <ctrl>+<num-plus>,
<ctrl>+<shift>+<num-equals>, <ctrl>+<shift>+<num-plus> work either.

Comment 4

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

FWIW ... Mozilla 0.94 for LINUX (Mandrake 8.1 has this version) doesn't care if
the command is entered as CTRL ++ or CTRL +=  (holding down the SHIFT key
doesn't make a difference to it)

But the same computer and keyboard can't get text to become larger with CTRL++
(actually CTRL SHIFT and the = key) with Windows 95.  It must be CTRL+= (no
shift key) to work.

So either it has reappeared in 0.96 after being fixed in 0.94, or there is a
OS-specific difference in the way keystrokes are handled.  The fast fix is to
make the menu text match what works on Windows and LINUX.  

Comment 5

[Dimitrios]

Wfm 2001121703, Win95. Perhaps a peculiar keyboard driver on reporter's machine?
Otherwise, I don't see why to leave this big unresolved.

Comment 6

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

The driver is WIN95 generic and the machine is a generic "PC" clone.  I can't
test MOZILLA on any other machuines, because the workplace uses NT and we
peasants don't have install priveleges. 


The fast fix is to make the menu text match what works on both Windows and
LINUX, and probably what you intended (the resizing keystrokes of "CTRL -" and
"CTRL =" are used in GIMP and a few other LINUX programs.  

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found it...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70141 ***

Comment 8

[timeless]

vrfy dupe