449570 - support Close All (Command-Alt-W) on OS X

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Andrew Garber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

Under Mac OS X, pressed Command-Alt-W should close all of an applications windows (the same as Alt-clicking any window's close button). Firefox does not respond to Command-Alt-W.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 2 or more windows (and not just browser windows).
2. Press Command-Alt-W
Actual Results:  
A system alert sound is produced, indicating that the keyboard shortcut is not supported by the application.

Expected Results:  
All open windows (including Downloads, Error Console, etc.) should close.

See "Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference" in Apple's Human Interface Guidlines for reference:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGKeyboardShortcuts/chapter_950_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002725-CHDIGFBH

Comment 1

[erwan bernard]

The developer page you quote is a guideline and is not mandatory but recommended. I think it is simply not implemented in FF as for today, see the list of shortcuts : http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts
I'm new to testing here but I would suggest modifying the bug to NEW for Enhancement.

Comment 2

[Andrew Garber]

Okay, I changed the severity to "enhancement". Given that this keyboard shortcut is supported by the vast majority of quality applications on Mac OS X, I think it's important that FF support it as well.

Comment 3

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I think this is a reasonable request (happens on trunk too).