639432 - Regression: ctrl-arrow no longer works properly in text areas

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Andrew Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

Ctrl-left and ctrl-right switch between active tabs. I think this has always been the case. 

However, in FF before version 4, they worked differently in text entry boxes: there, they moved the cursor forward or backwards a word at a time. This is a well-understood and general convention. 

However, in FF4, all the betas I have tried, pressing ctrl-arrow in a text are or editing box, like this, will switch to another tab altogether. I know this is a small bug, but it is a huge irritation for anyone who edits text in a browser, for instance in gmail. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open several tabs in a window
2. type a few words into a text entry box
3. Press ctrl-left-arrow


Actual Results:  

Actual behaviour: the whole page vanishes and the previous tab is displayed. Pressing ctrl-arrow repeatedly will cycle through all the tabs to the original one where text was being edited. So it's not lost. It's just needlessly hard and irritating to edit. 

Expected Results:  

Expected behaviour: the cursor moves to the beginning of the previous word in the text editing area

This seems to happen with a completely clean installation, though I am in fact using several tab management addons (tabberwocky; tab groups manager)

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110305 Firefox/4.0b13pre ID:20110305030406

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Possibly a broken addon.

Could you see if the issue occurs if using Firefox in safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty profile?
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_make-a-new-profile