575284 - Shortcut keys ctrl+t ctrl+w don't work while on a flash enabled site

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78414

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dexter.fryar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6

If you are currently on a site which uses Adobe Flash, the keyboard shortcut keys will not work. You must select a tab which contains a general HTML page before they will work. For example, visit http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/ - initially the ctrl+t and ctrl+w keys will work. When the links start scrolling, click on one of the flash links and a new tab should open. Use the ctrl+w to close the new tab that opened. Now, you should be back on the original tab http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/ where the links are still scrolling. Try using ctrl+t or ctrl+w and notice that they do not work. If you select another tab the shortcuts will work fine.

Note that you can use the File menu or right click the tab and the new and close actions work fine.

If you open two tabs each with http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/ you will notice that the shortcut keys stop working only after a link from the scrolling flash links has been selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start browser
2. ctrl+l and visit http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/
3. use keyboard ctrl+t and notice that a new tab will be opened
4. ctrl + w to close the new blank test tab
5. select one of the scrolling flash links from the http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/ tab
6. use ctrl+w to close the new tab opened from step 5
7. Try using ctrl+t or ctrl+w on the tab which is scrolling flash links http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/ and notice that it doesn't work.
Actual Results:  
ctrl+t and ctrl+w didn't work after selecting a link from a page which contained Flash

Expected Results:  
Actions mapped to the respective keyboard shortcut keys should be executed every time.