504733 - Fat finger control-w results in data loss

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Andrew Valencia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11

When filling in a form, any time I use control-W (backward delete word in most older textual applications), my window shuts and I lose all the data I've typed.  I know most people are perfectly happy with this, but PLEASE could somebody add an option to confirm so old **** like me don't have to re-type entire screens just because their fingers tried to back-delete a word before their brain could step it?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any site with a nice big textual input box
2. Type in a page full of really great text
3. Type control-W
4. Re-open a window and start again



There's already confirmation when there are multiple tabs which are about to be deleted, so there's precedent for defending against unconfirmed data destruction.
Maybe if the page which is about to be tossed has form input, confirmation could
be requested?  At least under an option?  Thanks!

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

Works for me using data:text/html,<input> typed some text, ctrl + w, ctrl + shift + t text was restored.

Comment 3

[Andrew Valencia]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Works for me using data:text/html,<input> typed some text, ctrl + w, ctrl +
> shift + t text was restored.

Um, for me ctrl-w means last window closes, browser closes.  Then when
I restart it, ctrl-shift-t brings back nothing.  So far as I know, I'm
using the latest Ubuntu Firefox with no fancy customisation.  How do I
end up with a browser still around in which ctrl-shift-t can help?

Comment 4

[Andrew Valencia]

And I tried to work around this by keeping an extra tab around.  ctrl-shift-T brings back the window, but everything I was typing into the text box is gone.

Could you at least give me an easy way to disable the ctrl-W shortcut? :-(