672987 - Apple Left (Command Left) fails to go back.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Hello,

Firefox 5.0. Mac OS X 10.6.8.

I create a new Firefox tab. I go to www.google.fr . I enter penguin. I have
the Google Instant search turned off. I press Return. I get the Web results. In the black top bar, I click on Images. I get the Images results. The annoying new Google Images results, with intrusive zoom and pseudo-pages. I want to go back to the Web results, so I press Apple Left (Command Left). This must go back. This does **** in the Google Images results, but does not go back.
I tried a lot of things, including clicking in the page background, but no way to make this keyboard equivalent do its job.

This is a key ;-) feature of all Web browsers. This must work consistently, as expected. Even if some Web designer at Google thinks otherwise.

Thanks for correcting that,

Nicolas

Comment 1

[Vlad [QA]]

The same behavior can be observed also on Chrome and Safari.
In my opinion this is not a bug but a new Google issue.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

It is a bug in Firefox. Or flawed design in Firefox.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Firefox 5.0. Mac OS X 10.6.8.

I create a new Firefox window. I go to www.google.fr . I am at Google.
I go to www.tiilt.fr . I press Apple Left (Command Left). This must go back to Google. This does not go back.
I tried a lot of things, including clicking in the page background, but no way to make this keyboard equivalent do its job.

This is a key ;-) feature of all Web browsers. This must work consistently, as expected.

Thanks for correcting that,

Nicolas

Comment 4

[Vlad [QA]]

WFM on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110728 Firefox/8.0a1 and also on
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Cmd Left/Right works perfectly.

Could you see if the issue occurs if using an empty testing profile? (Don't install any addons into it)
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 5

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

I have the Flash plugin. I think that's all. No Adobe Reader.
I did not add any Firefox extension.

Comment 6

[Vlad [QA]]

Reporter, can you please try to reproduce the issue on the latest Firefox beta:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/6.0b5/mac/en-US/

Comment 7

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

(In reply to Nicolas Barbulesco from comment #0)

Firefox 6.0, Mac OS X 10.6.8. Same problem.

Comment 8

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Now I encounter the same bug, on Win Vista, in Firefox 14.0.1, on the page http://fr.scribd.com/doc/120088889/Communique-de-presse-manifestation-du-dimanche-13-janvier-2013 , when I press Ctrl F. Intead of getting the Firefox search, I get the page's search.

Comment 9

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Now I encounter the same bug, on Win Vista, in Firefox 14.0.1, on the page http://fr.scribd.com/doc/120088889/Communique-de-presse-manifestation-du-dimanche-13-janvier-2013 , when I press Ctrl F. Instead of getting the Firefox search, I get the page's search.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Nicolas Barbulesco from comment #8)
> Now I encounter the same bug, on Win Vista, in Firefox 14.0.1, on the page
> http://fr.scribd.com/doc/120088889/Communique-de-presse-manifestation-du-
> dimanche-13-janvier-2013 , when I press Ctrl F. Intead of getting the
> Firefox search, I get the page's search.

same thing happens in chrome and IE. Thus, I doubt this is a browser bug.