435375 - Alternate keyboard layouts have broken keyboard bindings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 439815

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Zak Greant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0

I use the Colemak keyboard layout (and have been successfully using it with the last few betas for FF3.)

The last update has keyboard shortcuts that seem hard-coded in the keyboard locale. e.g. I press COMMAND-L on my keyboard and the result is the US English keybinding of COMMAND-U instead.

I can switch to Dvorak layout and reproduce the behaviour.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open System Preferences -> International
2. Enable Dvorak as the keyboard layout
3. Try a key binding

Comment 1

[Lisbeth Nilsen]

This is not a problem in Leopard, all keyboard shortcuts started working as expected once I upgraded my OS yesterday. Seems to be a problem in Tiger, though, I had the same problem earlier.

Comment 2

[Andy]

No, this can't have anything to do with Leopard. 
The same issue is on Windows and that is since FF 3 RC1. 
The current Firefox 3.0 final still has this issue. 

All keyboard bindings are broken with an alternative keyboard layout like dvorak.
They will only work if you use a shortcut 
while the mouse cursor is blinking in a form field. 
Other than that they won't work. 

Comment 3

[Peter Hamberg]

Duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439815 ?

Comment 4

[TGOS]

@Andy: Trust me, it has. I can also confirm that the Colemak Layout:

http://colemak.com/

has this problem on Tiger, but not on Leopard. On Tiger I can type Colemak everywhere, but shortcuts are QWERTY; on Leopard everything is as expected.

@Peter:
Yup, I think this is a duplicate indeed!