Open Bug 1514004 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Unreserve Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+w

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Version:
64 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: alexander.fratzer, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Hi,
at the moment the shortcut ctrl+w is reserved (key_close and key_closeWindow in browser-sets.inc). This is pretty annoying for webapplications with custom keybindings like codemirror-editor (vim-mode) or browser games.


Actual results:

JS applications are not able to overwrite the keybinding. So Crtl+w always closes the focused tab.


Expected results:

It should at least be possible to overwrite the keybinding by addons like Shortkeys or to patch the browser-sets.inc after building.
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard: Navigation
Product: Firefox → Core
Priority: -- → P3
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling

Please check the Chrome bug fix for similar issue:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=680809#c99

It's better to be able to use that browser reserved keys in Firefox too.

Severity: normal → S3
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