347891 - Home and End function (top of page / bottom of page) suddenly stopped working Normally you would press the Apple key + the Home or End key. Doesn't work at all anymore.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Petra de Jong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Normally you would press the Apple key + the "Home" or "End" key (on a Mac keyboard, the ones with the diagonal darts on them). Doesn't work at all anymore. Re-installing FF does not solve the problem. Same problem apparently exists in Windows.

Reproducible: Always




Bug occurs with any theme.

Comment 1

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

Press F7 and tell me if the problem persists.

Comment 2

[Petra de Jong]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Press F7 and tell me if the problem persists.
> 

Problem persists. I turned Caret Browsing on and off several times, no change.

Comment 3

[Petra de Jong]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Press F7 and tell me if the problem persists.
> 

A little while after I wrote that last comment, it suddenly started working again without me doing anything...

Comment 4

[Charlie B]

FWIW: I noticed the same thing in Windows XP. I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and problem remained. Turned off the "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within the pages" and functionality returned! However, I can't get Alt+Home to work (does nothing).

Comment 5

[Adrian Crooks]

(In reply to comment #4)
> FWIW: I noticed the same thing in Windows XP. I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and
> problem remained. Turned off the "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within
> the pages" and functionality returned! However, I can't get Alt+Home to work
> (does nothing).
> 
I noticed the same issue, except my Alt+Home still works. I additionally noticed that when I looked at the "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within the pages" did not indicate it was checked, but it was on regardless. To disable the option I
 
1. checked the box and applied it (Firefox behavior did not change)
2. unchecked the box and applied it (Firefox behavior now changed)

My navigation now seems to work as expected.

Comment 6

[Charlie B]

Well, my system crashed forcing a reinstall of everything. Now Alt+Home works in Firefox. Not the recommended solution ;-)

Comment 7

[Shawn M. Jones]

I have collected all of the bugs that display these symptoms under Bug 389768.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 9

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.