1598459 - Address bar ignores Shift key modifier in Shift+Delete shortcut for Cut command

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Daniel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select text in address bar
2. Press Shift+Delete to cut the text and copy to clipboard

Actual results:

Selected history entry in address bar dropdown is deleted from library and no text is copied to the clipboard.

Expected results:

No history entries should've been deleted, and the text should've been copied to the clipboard.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

In Firefox shift delete is used to remove entries from the dropdown, it's unfortunate that it clashes with cut and there's no simple fix for that, without breaking everyone using shift+del to remove entries. I think long term we should move destructive operations to the contextual menu, then we could evaluate changing the shortcut and advertize it through the menu itself.