216930 - CTRL+K does not place the cursor in search bar under certain conditions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Tobias Franke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

CTRL+K is supposed to place the cursor/focus to the search bar, however, when
any other textfield has the focus (a text field on a page or the adress bar),
CTRL+K wont do it's work. Try pressing CTRL+L and CTRL+K in a row. It does clear
out the adress bar instead of changing. One could argue this is because of a
special text editing feature (like cut/replace/paste etc.) but neither is CTRL+L
and there's no other CTRL+K under edit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any site.
2.Press CTRL+L or click on a text field on that page (for instance google search
field).
3.Press CTRL+K. The cursor does not change it's position. The search bar won't
receive the focus.

Actual Results:  
Nothing ;)

Expected Results:  
Focus the search bar. It's a little inconvinient for the advanced user to click
into the bar or on some empty spot on the page to use CTRL+K again.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This works for me with the 20030830 build on Windows 2000.

Your build is already rather old (over one month) and a lot has happened since 
then regarding firebird development. Please read 
http://texturizer.net/firebird/bugs.html before reporting any bugs.

Please retest this with a current nightly build, a fresh profile and without any
additional themes or extensions. Thank you.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 218224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[David P James]

Dupe of bug 72352. See also bug 218889

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72352 ***

Comment 4

[Bob Firth]

*** Bug 222247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Pierre Chanial]

HIG says (chapter 10, keyboard navigation)

Additional Widget Navigation Shortcut Keys

The following emacs-style navigation shortcut keys are still available in GNOME
2.0 text entry fields (by selecting the "emacs" scheme in the GNOME Keyboard
Shortcuts preferences dialog), but are disabled by default. Since some users
will still want to use them, do not over-ride them for your own purposes in any
situations where a text entry control has focus.

-> reopening

Comment 6

[Pierre Chanial]

-> me

Comment 7

[Pierre Chanial]

see bug 226273 for the new linux shortcut table.
marking fixed.