238967 - ctrl-w does not close the active tab if system caret (cursor) is in browser address entry box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223675

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Saulius Menkevicius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040305 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040305 Firefox/0.8

If you try to close the active tab with ctrl-w, when address entry box is
activated, it just deletes the text there before the cursor position, but does
not close the tab itself.
I guess there is a shortcut conflict between entry box and the tab manager.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open several tabs in a browser;
2. select (activate) browser address entry field;
3. press ctrl-w
Actual Results:  
The text before the caret position in the address field gets deleted, however
the tab didn't close.

Expected Results:  
Tab should be closed, instead of address deletion.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040404
Firefox/0.8.0+

Following your recipe, Ctrl-W acts as reverse tabbing through form fields
for me. Perhaps we are in the hands of the the OS and its Keyboard preferences.

You may have a long row to hoe in the sense that Ctrl-W is probably already
established as a text editing control (emacs) and I would imagine that most
people actually want the behaviour you found. If you feel strongly enough
about it, perhaps it should be a preference, but it is not one I would choose.

Ben

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232708 ***

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is a dup of bug 223675, not bug 232708.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223675 ***