257547 - inconsistent keyboard shortcut handling while in text fields

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189615

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[jon moses]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

There's inconsistent ( i think ) keyboard shortcut handling in text fields. 
Both in webpages, and text fields in the application (location/search) as well.

It seems that, while the focus is in a text field, text based keyboard shortcuts
take precedence over application based shortcuts.

For example, CTRL+W deletes the last word, rather than closing the current tab.

I think that this is fine when the focus is in form fields in the actual page,
but seems counter-intuitive when the focus is in application fields, such as the
Location or Search bars.

This causes such issues as, when I mistakenly open a new tab, and it opens in
front of the tab I was viewing, I can't just hit CTRL+W to close it, I have use
the mouse to take the focus away from the location bar before I can close the tab.

I'd like to see the application preferences take precedence in the application
text fields, rather than text shortcuts.  Or at least, a hidden preference to
change this behavior.

I also can't really decide if this is a minor bug, or a enhancement request.  oh
well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put focus in location bar.
2. Press CTRL+W (close tab)

Actual Results:  
last word type deleted

Expected Results:  
tab closure

Comment 1

[jon moses]

*** Bug 257548 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

This should probably marked a DUP of bug 189615 or bug 72352. Someone look at
those and determine whether we need to keep this as a separate bug.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Duping to firefox bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189615 ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Verifying old and obvious dupes. Sorry for bugspam.