131134 - Need "Unfocus" command, so keyboard can be used to scroll the page

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P5)

Description

[Martin Häcker]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020314
BuildID:    2002031408

Mozilla needs a "Deselect" command (somewhat like Photoshop?) so I as a user can
use my keyboard to give Commands to mozilla, or to scroll the page. This should
work in a way that whenever this comand fires it sets the focus on the site you
are currently using thus making it easyer to deal with bugs like the one where
focus just stays somewhere and you cant reset it to the actual browser tab to
get keyboard scrolling back.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use mozilla untill you cant navigate the current page with the keyboard.
2. Try to get keyboard navigation back.
3.

Actual Results:  There is no easy workaround for this problem. It sometimes
helped to open a new Tab or a new Window to get this back, but not always. :((

Sorry,  that I couldnt pin it down. :(

Expected Results:  There shold be an easy command for this ([Mac] <Command-D>
does this in Photoshop and many other programms I know that deal with selections)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To keyboard nav

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 146045, where I suggested using Escape to leave forms.  We wouldn't
add a shortcut just to work around a bug.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Currently no compelling rason to be able to deselect with the keyboard.

Did you select with the mouse in the first place? Then just click in the page.
Otherwise, use caret browsing (F7 to toggle), then you can select with the
keyboard, and deselect by typing an arrow key.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

I don't think you're trying to deselect -- selection is the term used when text
is highlighted. I think you're trying to unfocus a specific control -- and focus
the document.

Like Jesse said, it's the "leaving form control" shortcut you're asking for.

I think this is probably wontfix. If we ever implement single key shorcuts like
Opera has we'll come up with a shortcut to do that, because you'll need to be
able to leave edit boxes to use those commands.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Wontfix bugs.

mail filter string for bugspam: Tursiopstruncatus

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla doesn't have single-key shortcuts, but it does have keys for scrolling
and typeahead find.