286522 - often unable to use command-key shortcuts

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

If I close a tab with command-W, then try to close the next one with the same
command key combination, Firefox does not respond.  I've tried with a couple of
other command-keys in that situation, and some keyboard navigation like space
for scrolling down, and it doesn't respond to them either.

If I use the mouse or switch to another app and come back, Firefox responds to
my key commands.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[riscky]

I see this with an "unofficial build"


Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050318
Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
I would like to make bug as new but I've been having many keyboard shortcut
issues as of late... so I can't say its a bug for sure.

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

taking QA

Comment 3

[Blixman]

I was searching for a bug on this, but maybe I observe something else. What I
observed is that the shortcuts don't work if a plugin is used.

Reproduce:
1. open a PDF/movie/etc. in a window/new tab
2. use any command when having this page in front (e.g. command-W to close
window; command-L to reach location bar)

What happens:
- nothing

What I expect:
- commands to be carried out

Workaround:
1. Click into location bar
2. Do whatever you wanted to do (shortcuts work)

It seems that the communication with the plugins doesn't work properly.


On 10.1.5

Comment 4

[Alister Sieghart]

I am also experiencing intermittent failure to respond to keyboard shortcuts,
particularly Command-S. If I display the File menu (with a click) and let go
again, Firefox then responds correctly to the keyboard command.

Comment 5

[Marco De Vitis]

It also happens to me sometimes, now using Firefix 1.5 beta 2 on Mac OS
10.4.2... I particularly notice it with the Cmd-, shortcut for the prefs window:
sometimes I have to press it twice to make the window appear, other times it
doesn't work at all and I have to resort to the mouse.

I've read about other users having such problems after minimizing Firefox to the
dock, but I never do it; I only switch between Firefox and other applications
with Cmd-Tab, but I didn't notice any relations between the two operations.

Also Cmd-W for closing a Tab does not work sometimes in special web pages, e.g.
where you have a movie shown by the Quicktime plugin.

Comment 6

[Josh Watson]

I get this very frequently in firefox 1.5 running on OS X 10.4.5. It is supremely annoying.

Comment 7

[Jonathan Guerin]

I've found that this happens with tab selection for me - some sites will trigger it (but not always) and once their tab is selected, you cannot switch tabs using the cmd+number shortcuts until you switch tabs.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

Comment 8

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

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.