1483707 - Find-bar access keys differ between US and British English localisations

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: en-GB / English (United Kingdom), defect)

Description

[ce]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20180802174131

Steps to reproduce:

I was asked in #435326 to file a separate bug about this:

In that ticket, the access key for 'Highlight All' in the find bar was changed from A to L due to a conflict with the readline-style binding Ctrl+A on macOS. However, this change was apparently only made to the US English version of Firefox. The British English version still uses A, at least on the two Macs i've tested.

This difference might also be present in the South African English version of Firefox, but i haven't got around to confirming that.

Presumably, all of the English localisations should use the same access keys.


Actual results:

In British English Firefox, pressing Ctrl+A (on macOS — Alt+A on other platforms, i think) whilst the find bar is visible toggles 'Highlight All'. Ctrl+L has no effect.


Expected results:

Pressing Ctrl+L, rather than Ctrl+A, should toggle 'Highlight All'.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

And likely en-CA. 

Note that this is inevitable: normally changes to accesskeys are allowed without changing the string ID. This also means that all other locales won't be aware of the change.

I've fixed en-GB and en-CA, en-ZA is basically without an owner at the moment. The fix will be in tomorrow's Nightly, and hopefully next week betas.