242989 - Accel+key while menu activated should inactivate menu

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Lewis Jardine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

In windows, when a menu is activated (alt pressed for the first time, menu item
raises), pressing accel and any key should deactivate the menu. It should never
activate a menu item, even if the key would normally do so had accel not been held.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start mozilla
2. Press Alt (_F_ile becomes highlighted)
3. Press accel(ctrl)-W

Actual Results:  
_W_indow dropdown menu drops down

Expected Results:  
_F_ile unhighlights; menu deactivates.

While accel-w _should_ deactivate the menu when the menu is active, it
_should_not_ cause the window to close. Accel-<key> only closes the menu of
windows applications, even if it would normally do something else had the menu
been inactive.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Lewis Jardine]

In firefox 1.5b2, alt followed by ctrl-t still opens the tools menu. This
behaviour is still wrong.

In other words, I can still reproduce this in the latest version.

Comment 3

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.