505132 - Caret browsing automatically enabled on upgrade from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[brycelawson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When upgrading from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1, caret browsing ("Always use cursor keys to navigate in pages" in Options\Advanced) was automatically enabled.

Environment is Win Vista Home Premium 32-bit, no service pack.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox 3.5.0.
2. Upgrade to 3.5.1.
3. Go to Tools > Options.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Click the General tab.
6. "Always use cursor keys to navigate in pages" is ticked.
Actual Results:  
"Always use cursor keys to navigate in pages" was enabled.

Expected Results:  
"Always use cursor keys to navigate in pages" should have been disabled, as it was disabled before the upgrade.

Not sure if this affects other users.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I can not confirm this on a vista and a win2003 system

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This upgrade was a long time ago, we can't fix it anymore, and we couldn't reproduce at the time -> marking as incomplete.