223604 - select all keyboard shortcut should be command-a, not option-a

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[ender_mb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 Firebird/0.7

I'm not sure how or when this happened, but OS X Firebird uses some bizarre
keyboard shortcuts.

-Edit>Select All responds to both cmd+a and option+a, but is labeled as
option+a. It should only respond to and be labeled as cmd+a.
-View>Sidebar>Bookmarks responds to both cmd+b and cmd+i, but is labeled as
cmd+i. It should only respond to and be labeled as cmd+b.
-Tools>Page Info is set to cmd+j. It should be cmd+i (this is currently the
bookmarks sidebar shortcut for some reason).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[riscky]

Are you running Mac OS X 10.3?

I only ask since I build my own version of Mozilla Firebird and used the SAME
exact build on 10.2.x with none of these problems... last night I installed 10.3
and I have this problem. Sure maybe I didn't notice the problem in 10.2.x but it
stick out in my face big time under 10.3 (all the changes and what not)

Comment 2

[ender_mb]

Nope, I'm using 10.2.8 (soon to be 10.3 though...)

Comment 3

[ender_mb]

I installed 10.3 today, and I still get the same thing.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Cmd/ctrl+i is the IE standard.  the switch was to j to enable that key-compatibility

Where are you getting these "OS standard" shortcuts? Safari?

Also, is your reasoning based on the Apple HIG or just your idea of what thuings
should look like?

Comment 5

[ender_mb]

"Cmd/ctrl+i is the IE standard.  the switch was to j to enable that
key-compatibility"

Huh? I don’t understand what you mean by this. Most OS X apps that have an
"info" command use cmd+i (Preview, Finder) or cmd+shift+i if they have an
"italic" command as well (iChat).

"Where are you getting these "OS standard" shortcuts? Safari?

Also, is your reasoning based on the Apple HIG or just your idea of what thuings
should look like?"

I’m basing it on what makes sense. It doesn’t make sense to have commands
respond to multiple shortcuts. I have no idea how cmd+i could be logically
associated with "show me my bookmarks," especially when it also responds to
cmd+b. And shortcuts on OS X are supposed to respond to command, not option (the
HIG standard "select all" is definitely cmd+a).

Comment 6

[Jonathan Louie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031215
Firebird/0.7+:

view->sidebar->bookmarks == command-b only.
tools->page info == command-i only.

i presume someone fixed those without consulting this bug.

i'm changing summary to just the edit->select all problem.

Comment 7

[riscky]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040525
Firefox/0.8.0+

Can anyone else confirm this?

Comment 8

[ender.mb]

Yeah, looks like someone fixed it. I知 going to double-check on a branch build
and then somebody can close this..

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a2)
Gecko/20040527 Firefox/0.8.0+ 

Comment 9

[ender.mb]

yup, wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040531 Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 10

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WFM per reporter's comment.

Comment 11

[Lorin Rivers]

Yes, in the 7 months since I reported this, it has been fixed.