1556587 - Mac option + arrows/delete behavior is inconsistent and nonstandard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 571913

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[ben.kazez]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open TextEdit or any standard Mac app, or even Chrome.

2. Open a Firefox page that has some test text fields.

3. Observe the behavior of option + left/right arrow keys and option + delete when dealing with words and punctuation - example phrases below:

4. "left/right arrow keys."

5. "don't ask me why it's like this"

Actual results:

option + left/right arrow keys:

• with cursor at far left of example #1, pressing option-right advances to right of slash and period (full stop ".").
• for example #2, option + left/right/delete treats the apostrophe as a word separator.

Expected results:

option + left/right arrow keys:

• with cursor at far left of example #1, pressing option-right should advance to left of slash
• for example #2, option + left/right should treat "don't" and "it's" as full words.
• for example #2, option + delete should delete the full words "don't" and "it's".

Firefox should match the standard macOS behavior as exhibited by TextEdit.

Comment 1

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Hi I managed to reproduce this issue in all versions of Firefox, Release, Beta as well as Nightly on Mac OsX as well as Ubuntu and Windows using Ctrl + left or right arrows.