274303 - double actions performed for accel keys after using java plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Alex K]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

after using the java plugin (say the network speed test at ns1.etheric.net)
accel T for a new tab opens TWO new tabs, accel N opens TWO new windows. Even
worse accel W closes TWO tabs! I've not noticed this under Linux, just Mac.

I do have accel mapped to control not CMD but don't believe this is the problem.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto http://ns1.etheric.net/
2. hit accel T (usually CMD T)
3.

Actual Results:  
two new tabs popped up

Expected Results:  
I only expected one tab to pop up

Comment 1

[Jason Levine]

I can confirm this bug, and also add the following observations:

- once this happens, the accel key for quit (CMD-Q) doesn't work anymore (thank
goodness, since I fear the double-action would quit Firefox AND the next app to
pop into focus!);
- I have never seen this happen on PC, so to add to the original poster's
observations, it appears to be just Mac;
- I do not have my acceleration key changed from the default at all (e.g., the
original poster has changed his/hers to control, but mine is the default CMD/Apple);
- I never traced this to the Java plugin explicitly, but that may be because
it's never entirely clear when the Java plugin is loaded, so I may have just
missed some small bit of Java code loaded in a non-visible tab.

Lastly, I can say that this is a VERY frustrating bug; I've lost quite a bit of
work over time as a result of it (whenever it closes a tab that has content on
which I'm working).  It's made me use Safari for much of my Real Work, which is
a shame, but a necessary shame.

Comment 2

[Jason Kersey]

Let's have at it.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Does anyone know *why* this is happening?

Comment 4

[Jason Levine]

I haven't a clue, but still have my open offer to help however I can!  The fact that this has gone this long 
without anything makes me frustrated; in fact, I'm using Safari right now because I got fed up with 
Firefox doing the double-key thing this morning.

Comment 5

[Jason Levine]

To add another website that always causes the bug to rear its head:

http://www.swcc.com/index2.html

I'm curious -- since there was one site before that always reproduced the bug,
and now another, is there any hope of seeing any activity on this?

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

ccing some mac folks, any chance cfrunloop fixed this?

Comment 7

[db]

*** Bug 276534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

related to bug 177339?

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

We're in the process of removing support for plugins (bug 1677160), so I think this bug is irrelevant now.