636196 - If window.onkeypress returns false, +R does not reload the page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

Description

[Pierre Rudloff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.2.15pre) Gecko/20110223 Camino/1.6 (like Firefox/3.6.15pre)
Build Identifier: Version 2.1a2pre (1.9.2.15pre 20110223001624)

If a page contains the following code +R does not reload the page.
window.onkeypress=function() {
    return false;
};
I think this can be an accessibility problem. (The user might not understand why it is not working.)

Reproducible: Always




+T and +W work.

Comment 1

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

Welcome to the internet of the future :(

The new standard behavior for browsers is to allow pages to win at handling most menu shortcuts. We protect only a small set of commands that we feel are most critical (and it's a larger set than other browsers, I believe). We fought against this early on, but it's become the standard now, and letting our menus win for everything now would cause a lot of compat issues for things that work in all other browsers.

The solution in general is to press command-L (or T, or W, or one of the other protected keys that moves focus out of the page) to escape pages that do things like this.

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

(Also, the solution is to yell at pages that collide with shortcuts that you think they shouldn't.)