1804149 - Incorrect behavior when pressing the Option + Up/Down Arrow key combination inside a text field on macOS

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[5silentrain]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any website that has text with paragraphs. For example, some page from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loona

2. Select and copy a couple of paragraphs to the clipboard, for example these:

Between November 2017 and January 2018, they released the solo single albums for new members Yves, Chuu, and Go Won, continuing the monthly pattern along with the digital single "The Carol 2.0" sung by Yves, Vivi, and Choerry.[23] In March 2018, they released the solo single album for the final member, Olivia Hye.[24] On May 30, 2018, the group's third sub-unit, Loona yyxy, made their debut with the extended play Beauty & the Beat. The single "love4eva" featuring Canadian musician Grimes was released the same day with an accompanying music video.[25] The extended play reached number 4 on the Gaon Album Chart.[26]

On August 7, 2018, Loona released a pre-debut digital single titled "Favorite", the group's first song to feature all twelve members,[27] accompanied by a music video focusing on the group's choreography. The pre-debut single was later revealed to be the lead single of Loona's debut EP [+ +].[28]

3. Paste the copied text into any text field. For example, in Google Translate: https://translate.google.com

4. In Safari and Chrome, pressing the Option + Up/Down Arrow key combination moves the cursor to the beginning and end of paragraphs. But it doesn't work in Firefox, which is very inconvenient for macOS users! 😥

That is, once again you can see how Mozilla completely ignores Apple's guidelines, which is not good for users of this operating system who are used to the uniform behavior of the vast majority of applications. macOS is not Windows! In this operating system, it is highly desirable to follow Apple's guidelines. As a user of Chrome and Safari, it is extremely inconvenient for me to use Firefox.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

We do appear to attempt to implement this, but it looks like it is bound to ⌘ rather than Option? https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/9423bbd90c59ef7739c8453c265d04d8cf07ce73/dom/events/ShortcutKeyDefinitions.cpp#461-462

Comment 3

[5silentrain]

I'm not talking about selection, but about moving through PARAGRAPHS using the modifier key Option + Up / Down Arrow.

The Command + Up/Down Arrow combination works just fine in Firefox, allowing you to move to the very top or bottom of a text field.