Open Bug 1591783 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Some common keyboard shortcuts don't work in console input on Gnome

Categories

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
Console
Version:
70 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: markus, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open the DevTools console
  2. Enter some words in the prompt
  3. Try to use some common keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+Left/Right to jump around words, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to select words, Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word

Actual results:

The shortcuts don't work in the console prompt. They do work in other input fields, such as the "Filter output" field in the console, or in the inspector.

This seems to be related to Gnome somehow, I've had this problem for years on two different machines running Gnome, but can't reproduce it on another machine running Xfce. I don't think it's related to my settings, and I'm definitely not mapping these keys elsewhere as they do work fine in other inputs inside Firefox.

Expected results:

The shortcuts should work normally.

Component: Untriaged → Console
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Product: Firefox → DevTools
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Priority: -- → P3
Summary: Some common keyboard shortcuts don't work in DevTools console prompt → Some common keyboard shortcuts don't work in console input on Gnome

I'm curious if anybody can reproduce this, or narrow down the environmental factors.

I'm currently on Firefox 71, Gnome 3.34, Debian unstable.

Severity: normal → S3
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