86763 - Ctrl+w close window address bar inconsistent

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64828

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Morten Stenseth]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010618
BuildID:    2001061821

Ctrl+w does not close the window when being in the address bar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to address bar ( Ctrl+l )
2.Type in address, before you finish you decide to close the window
  with Ctrl+w


Actual Results:  Clears the address bar.

Expected Results:  Close the window

This may or may not be a bug ,but Ctrl-w
doesn't close window when typing addresses
in the address bar, this seems somewhat
inconsistent since Ctrl-w is used
to close windows everywhere else, and
it makes it almost impossible to
close the window from the address bar
without using a mouse..., and there is 
no use in having Ctrl-w to clear the address
bar since the same can be accomplished by
just pressing Ctrl-l to mark the whole address
and then start typing from scratch.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

C-w deletes a word in all textfields (also in HTML forms).  This is a NS 4.x
compatibility behavior...

see bug 72352 for a request to have this behavior be pref-able.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64828 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

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