412111 - Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+t closes or opens more than just one tab. It gets stuck, somehow.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Johan Öhlin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

Sometimes when I want to open a new tab and uses the Ctrl + t shortcut Firefox opens more than one new tab. And the same thing happens sometimes when I use Ctrl + F4 to close a tab, it closes all of them (one is left, it does not close the Firefox window)

I have no clue when this happens, but it's not all the time. It have happened almost 10 times (I would guess) in a month, when I switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.10.

Reproducible: Sometimes



Expected Results:  
Only one tab should have been opend or closed.

Computer specifics:
Ubuntu release lenny/sid with GNOME 2.20.1 and Linux kernel 2.6.22-14-generic.
GCC version: 4.1.3 (i486-linux-gnu)
Xorg version: 1.3.0 (29 September 2007)

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
2000.000 MHz

Total memory: 439 MiB

Comment 1

[jonas-e]

This bug i consistant in my current installation of Firefox (see below), i.e.
- CTRL+F4 CONSISTANTLY closes two tabs, not one.
- I do not have the above mentioned problem with CTRL+T; it only opens one empty tab.

My installation:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I was able to recreate Jonas's bug in 3.0.7 when I had both AIOS and TabMixPlus extensions enabled.  Otherwise Ctrl+F4 behaved as expected.

Comment 3

[Dr B W Darvell]

I have Ctrl-F closing two tabs, I think since whatever the first release incarnation FF 3.5 was. This is consistent and persistent through M$ updates, reboots: completely reproducible.  Ctrl-t only opens one tab, Ctrl-w only closes one.  I have noticed no other oddity, and as far as I can tell my keyboard is good.  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.x or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 5

[Johan Öhlin]

I do not have this problem any more. I don't recall when this issues stopped, but probably after the (then) uppcomming Ubuntu release, 8.04.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

WFM then.

Comment 7

[Dr B W Darvell]

Sorry not to have noticed the fix ... 3.6.6 (normal mode) on this machine (IBM laptop, T42) is OK (having learnt to avoid the trouble, I did not test as often as perhaps I should).  I cannot check my other machines for 2 months yet, but I do not recall any annoyance lately, probably for some time.