327264 - document.onkeydown handler disables all chrome keyboard shortcuts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Bas Zoetekouw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060110 Debian/1.5.dfsg-4 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060110 Debian/1.5.dfsg-4 Firefox/1.5

If one uses javascript code like this:

function keypressed ()  { alert("foo bar");}
document.onkeydown=keypressed;

in a document, then all keyboard navigation is disabled while viewing this page.  There's no way anymore to close the tab (ctrl-W), open a new one (ctrl-N), or switch to another tab using the keyboard.

Wouldn't it make sense for keys that ar ein use by the gui not to generate an onkeydown event?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Attachment: Testcase.

Comment 2

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060215 Firefox/1.6a1
Confirmed. See testcase.

Comment 3

[buovjaga]

Viewing the testcase, I am able to close it with Ctrl-W.

Firefox 50.0a1 (2016-07-11)
Ubuntu 16.04.1 64-bit

Firefox 47.0
Windows 7 64-bit

Comment 4

[buovjaga]

Closing as WFM.