866639 - shortcut ctrl-j doesn't close the download-window anymore (behaves differently recently)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[michael]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

open the downloads-window using the shortcut ctrl-j
try to close it again using the same shortcut ctrl-j

on windows 7, using Firefox:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0


Actual results:

the downloads-window opens but doesn't close on the second ctrl-j press


Expected results:

it should close
(ctrl-j used to close the downloads-window in previous versions of firefox)

Comment 1

[Dougas A. Lane]

Justification/Rationale to revert to the original functionality.

1 - the change broke existing UI/functionality.  A change like
that should be done with great care with respect to the elegant
solution of the original functionality.

2 - the original functionality was very good.  If one accidentally
hit Ctrl-J another Ctrl-J would hide/close the downloads window.
A user is now required to close the window or use an alternate
keystroke to close or change focus.

3 - it does no harm to add back the functionality. There is 
no new feature that now uses Ctrl-J.

4 - the original functionality was a simple interface.  Why
add complexity when the original functionality met a goal
of KISS?

Comment 2

[vixenvonskull9]

Try using Alt + F4 instead.

Comment 3

[ypeels]

(In reply to vixenvonskull9 from comment #2)
> Try using Alt + F4 instead.

But that requires moving two fingers... 

Ctrl-W, on the other hand, seems to work on Windows in 44.0.2, and you don't need to move whichever pinky finger was on the Ctrl button.