265397 - new keyboard shortcut ctrl+u is implemented without focus consideration

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Bill Corr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Firefox/0.10.1

On Unix/Linux systems ctrl+u is a shell escape code that clears the entire line
of text. 

In previous versions of Mozilla this could be used in the URL window to clear
the url for entering fresh text. It is much quicker than selecting the whole
line and pressing delete.

Now it pops up a new window with the HTML source of the current page.

Please can this keyboard shortcut be made context sensitive so that typing
ctrl+u when the URL window has focus it does the 'kill line' as a user would
expect in a shell, and when the browswer window has focus it shows the HTML source? 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put caret in URL window
2. Type ctrl+u
3.

Actual Results:  
The HTML source was displayed in a popup.

Expected Results:  
It should have cleared the current URL text.