64135 - Shortcut needed for going to home page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Currently it appears we have no keyboard shortcut for going to the home page.

I suggest Alt+Home. It fits well with Alt+Left and Alt+Right (for Back and 
Forward), and is used for going to the home page in Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Actually, on Mac OS this would be Command+Home (to match Command+Left and 
Command+Right for Back and Forward). On all other platforms it would be 
Alt+Home.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: [patch] home shortcut

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

cc'ing alec for sr

Comment 4

[timeless]

r=timeless assuming some minor whitespace changes are fixed.

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

a=[e-mail]

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Fix checked in.

Comment 7

[:deanis74]

Why was the modifier hard-coded to either "alt" or "meta"?  Shouldn't it have 
been "accel"?

Comment 8

[timeless]

accel is ctrl on windows. we hard coded to !accel. effectively.
we really need a way to name alt and meta w/ one word so we don't need the 
different mac/pc names.

Comment 9

[:deanis74]

Would it be the same as what GetMenuAccessKey() returns in 
nsMenuBarListener.cpp?

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/xul/base/src/nsMenuBarListener.cp
p#77

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy fixed: Alt+Home works fine on winNT and linux [2001.01.12.08]. Command+Home
works fine on Mac OS [2001.01.12.08].