281274 - [Mac] ctrl+left/control+right don't work in URL entry box, although they work in Safari

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Thomas Womack]

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

When you click in the URL entry bar, ctrl+left and ctrl+right should move to
beginning and end of the text, but they actually have no effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Single-click twice in the middle of the URL-entry box
2.Press ctrl+left-arrow

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Moved the cursor position to the end of the URL-entry-box content

Comment 1

[Hiro]

Confirm.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050205
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

err, why should it work? the keybinding is *command*+left-arrow (works-for-me)

Comment 3

[Thomas Womack]

(In reply to comment #2)
> err, why should it work? the keybinding is *command*+left-arrow (works-for-me)

CTRL+arrows works in the equivalent situation in safari, and indeed in all Aqua text-entry boxes I've 
tried; it doesn't work in IE.mac:5.2, but I'd file that as a bug there, too.

Comment 4

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

doesn't work for me in either safri or subethaedit, you're probably either
trying command+arrows or mapped control+arrows using a system-extension.

Comment 5

[Thomas Womack]

(In reply to comment #4)
> doesn't work for me in either safri or subethaedit, you're probably either
> trying command+arrows or mapped control+arrows using a system-extension.

I have only had this Mac Mini for a week, but I'm pretty sure I can distinguish the "command" and 
"control" keys; I haven't deliberately installed a system extension, and if I had, I would expect Firefox to 
recognise it just as Safari does.  Is there any way to tell if I have a system extension installed?

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Firefox won't recognize those kind of system extensions since the textboxes are
not cocoa textboxes.

Command+Arrows should work for you in both app, does it?

Comment 7

[John Dorner]

On Mac OS X use the [Command]+arrow keys (<- or ->) to move to the start or end of the line.

Use the [Option]+arrow keys to move a word or part of URL at a time. 

Comment 8

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 9

[David P James]

Mass edit: Setting correct QA for location bar/autocomplete. My bad. I forgot I had once been Autocomplete QA too. Hmm, why can't I just set the QA of bugs to the default QA of the component in a mass edit rather than having to do it manually...?

Comment 10

[Elhem Enohpi]

This can be closed as fixed.

It works - presumably since Firefox now uses native text boxes? After disabling control-left/right arrows as the default shortcut to switch between Spaces, they do move the cursor to the beginning/end of line in text boxes, including the URL bar.