Open Bug 639205 Opened 12 years ago Updated 6 months ago

In Firefox 4.0 beta12 Alt-left arrow and alt-right arrow do not work if keyboard layout is different than USA.Tested with greek,italian,afghanistan.

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: man_0s, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

In Firefox 4.0 beta 12 Alt-left arrow and alt-right arrow do not work if keyboard layout is different than USA.Tested with greek,italian,afghanistan.
If i use alt-back nothing happens instead of going to the previous page.The same happens if i hit alt-right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to your keyboard prefrences and add a layout(for example greek or afghanistan)
2.Them change to this layout.
3.Go to a web page and then to another one in order the back action to be enabled.
4.Make sure your keyboard layout is in something different than USA and hit alt-left arrow or alt-right arrow
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
You have to go a page back or front.

I use the default theme and i have noscript,flashblock,adblock plus and pilot installed.
I have try the same in safe mode of firefox(with desabled addons).
Version: unspecified → Trunk
The above happens with the usage of right alt and not on the left.
Severity: normal → S3
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