545060 - Key PageHome does not always jump to the top of a long page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

The key PageHome should always (!) navigate to the absolute top of a long web page, but it doesn't (Firefox 3.6, Mac OSX.5.8, PPC G4). 


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page with long text, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_potter#Cultural_impact etc.
2. Scroll to the middle of that page, then try to jump to the top of the page using the key PageHome.
3. It (mostly) does not work, but it should. 

Actual Results:  
The key PageHome does not always navigate to the absolute top of a long web page. 


Expected Results:  
The key PageHome should always (!) navigate to the absolute top of a long web page.

Comment 1

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

I can reproduce this problem on Aurora.

1) Go to
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Mac_OS_X_Prerequisites

2) Scroll halfway down the page

3) Press the 'Home' Key

Actual:
Nothing happens

Expected:
Scroll to the top of the page

Aside:
On this bugzilla page, the home key does function properly (for me).

Comment 2

[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.

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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Comment 3

[daylin.trenton]

I am reporting this here-- and everywhere-- because someone keeps closing the issue when I file it. I am not going to stop. You have broken a browser that millions of people rely on for NO REASON.

Comment 4

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Hi,
I cannot reproduce the issue in latest Nightly 95.0a1 (2021-10-08). On my end the HomePage key works accordingly using Windows 10 and macOS 11 and I can jump to the top of the page with keyboard home button.
If someone can still reproduce this issue using the latest Fx version, please feel free to file a new issue or re-open this one.
Thanks.