145910 - Alt+F focuses on input field instead of performing default action

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 128452

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

Description

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510

BuildID:    2002051009

Alt+F focuses on input field, instead of starting the Find dialog on the
freshmeat.net main page, when the modifier keys (Alt, Ctrl) are swapped.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

1. Swap your modifier keys in Edit->Pref.->Debug, to match old NS settings on
unix. (Acc.: 18, Menu: 17)

2. Restart Mozilla

3. Load the URL

4. Select some random text in the entries to mark the beginning of the search

5. Press Alt+F

Actual Results:  The "Search for" text input field gets focused.

Expected Results:  The Find in This Page dialog should pop up.

Workaround: Selecting Edit->Find in This Page 

That's how I discovered this bug, but it's more severe for other users, who use
the default accelerator key modifiers (Acc.: 17, Menu: 18), because they loose
direct keyboard acces to the File menu.

Comment 1

[Pete Boyd]

changing summary to reflect the whole situation, as per description

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

qa --> [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

	  <label accesskey="f" for="query"><b>Search for</b></label>
	  <input type="text" id="query" name="q" size="10" value="">

So Freshmeat is requesting explicitly that pressing 'f' focus that textfield.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128452 ***

Comment 4

[Pete Boyd]

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