Closed Bug 316007 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Missing Ctrl shortcuts on OS X

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229473

People

(Reporter: joh, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

All Cocoa applications on MacOS X (like Safari, Mail, etc) support Emacs-like Control-shortcuts in entry-fields and textareas. Firefox doesn't. While I can understand that enabling these on Windows and Linux may create problems with other Shortcuts overlapping, this is never the case on OS X, since OS X never uses the Control key for shortcuts (but the Command key instead).

So could we please have these shortcuts working in Firefox, too?

In older versions of Firefox there was a very poorly documented way to change/add shortcuts (by editing platformHTMLBindings.xml), but with Firefox 1.5.RC2 this file has vanished for good. 

Reproducible: Always

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229473 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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