528067 - Escape key does not cancel stuck picture attachment holder

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[eye4bear]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b2) Gecko/20091108 Firefox/3.6b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b2) Gecko/20091108 Firefox/3.6b2

When in Yahoo Mail you click on a picture attachment, Yahoo will display a gray place holder with a spinning circle until the attachment file is retrieved and displayed. If, as was the case today, Yahoo fails to find the file quickly, the user has the option to hit the "escape" key and return the page to the open email. When I tried this is build 3.6b2 today, Firefox does not cause the placeholder to close and the open email to return. Instead it just seemed to ignore me hitting the escape key. To get out of this situation, I had to close the Yahoo mail tab. I reopened the same email in 3.5.5 and Yahoo again seemed to be unable to find the attached picture file, however in 3.5.5 hitting the escape key released the placeholder and returned me to the open email as it always has in past versions of Firefox. This procedure seems to be broken in 3.6b2. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open yahoo mail and click on picture attachment icon
2. Yahoo fails to find file and page "loops"
3.Clicking on the escape key should return user to open email and close attachment placeholder.
Actual Results:  
This build of Firefox ignores the pressed escape key and leaves user in file retrieval loop.

Expected Results:  
Pressing the escape key should close the attachment placeholder and return me to the open email.

See above.

Comment 1

[daylin.trenton]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it, and I will be identifying the people who broke it, like Asif Youssuff, personally, until it is identified as the bug that it is.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.

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