Benjamin Smedberg Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

On other Firefox platforms, hitting Control-K will bring focus to the search box. On Linux if a non-text field is focused this is true, but if a text field (either in content or in chrome) is focused, Control-K will kill to the end of the line.

Oddly, this is not true of multiline <textarea> fields, only single-line fields.

STR:
Press Control-L to focus the searchbox
Start typing, realize that you're in the location box by mistake
Press Control-K to focus the searchbox

Presumably this has something to do with standard Linux keybindings for Control-K, but I have trouble believing that this is actually a good thing to do. Philipp, do you know who the right person is to make this decision?

	Andrew Comminos [:acomminos]
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

This is due to GTK3 respecting the ancient X11/emacs keybinding by default.

I believe this was already decided in 1176929.

	(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago

Seems like this solved itself.
If not, my advice would be to always use the Firefox keybinding.