724345 - Start menu appears on closing Ctrl Tab panel with the escape key

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[lwz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set preference "browser.ctrlTab.previews" to true
2. Hold down Ctrl and press and release the Tab key to open the Ctrl Tab panel
3. Press Esc, still holding Ctrl down


Actual results:

Start menu pops up


Expected results:

Start menu shouldn't pop up

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Is this still an issue with Firefox 10.0.1?

Please post the contents of about:support as a text attachment to this bug

Comment 2

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Any update? Please address comment 1

Comment 3

[lwz]

Yes it still does. I have upgraded to the latest release, 10.0.2.

Comment 4

[lwz]

It happens on a completely new profile, with only the preference "browser.ctrlTab.previews" changed to true.

Comment 5

[lwz]

Attachment: The about:support page (empty profile)

Comment 6

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Able to confirm the behavior, but Ctrl + Esc is the Windows shortcut to open up the start menu, so not sure how Firefox can stop that...

Comment 7

[lwz]

Maybe you can help me get my patch in for the other bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724346) instead.

Comment 8

[lwz]

Also, you didn't change the status to confirmed.

Comment 9

[Logan Rosen [:Logan]]

Confirming this. There's probably a way to work around the Windows shortcut while the switcher is open (although I have no idea how to do this).