879617 - [Critical] Right windows key not detected in latest Firefox builds, works in Chrome/IE.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[parlane]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to press the Right Windows key on the keyboard to activate the admin menu on our Gas&Oil admin panel.


Actual results:

Opened Windows start menu but did not activate our admin panel.


Expected results:

I have found a website that tests the key presses and the same bug appears: http://www.doesdolphinrunonmykeyboard.com/ And then press the right windows key on the keyboard it should say:

______ has confirmed support for the following keys on your keyboard:
<right window>
This does not work, but the left windows key does:

______ has confirmed support for the following keys on your keyboard:
<left window>

Our admin panel should have opened.  Basically we rely on Firefox to operate the control panel from and we REALLY need the right windows key to work as some abnormalities have recently shown up and we can't compensate for them without access to the admin menu [right windows key]. We have about 3 hours before it won't matter anymore. Cheers.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window(m-c)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f2b2b99108a2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120517030029
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/895e12563245
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120517110214
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=f2b2b99108a2&tochange=895e12563245

Regression window(m-c)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/2c3647738e81
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120516230826
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/12f13acb5ea8
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120517005526
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=2c3647738e81&tochange=12f13acb5ea8

Regressed by: Bug 630810

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

The site(app) should use DOM3 KeyboardEvent.location to determine location of the key.
See, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent#Key_location_constants

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #2)
> The site(app) should use DOM3 KeyboardEvent.location to determine location
> of the key.
> See,
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/
> KeyboardEvent#Key_location_constants

Exactly. There shouldn't be any ways to distinguish key location except KeyboardEvent.location.