298251 - Next word keystroke moves to the space before the word, requires twice as many keystrokes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 142120

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Bob Katz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Next Word keystroke (on mac it's option-right arrow) is very broken, at least on
the Mac. It requires twice as many keystrokes to move forward from word to word
than it should. The cursor moves to the space before the next word, then it
moves to the beginning of the word. This is a historically-annoying bug I have
seen on all Mozilla-derived browsers that caused me to abandon them many years
ago and I'm saddened to see that Firefox has retained this bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit some text (in Firefox, on the MacIntosh)
2. Click within the text
3. Navigate with the keystroke to the next word (option+right arrow)
4. Observe that the cursor stops at the space BEFORE the next word
Actual Results:  
I got very frustrated and continued to think about abandoning using Firefox as
my browser!

Expected Results:  
Fewer keystrokes would make any typist happier!

This is a historic bug I've seen in all Mozilla-based browsers (at least on the
Mac). I can't believe no one has complained about it till now, so if it's
already in the database I both apologize and urge you to make it urgent. There
isn't a single day I'm not editing text in a dialogue box in Firefox.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 142120?

Comment 2

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

Yes, this has been fixed on the trunk but not the branch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142120 ***