Closed Bug 732802 Opened 12 years ago Closed 9 years ago

click into new tab page no longer focusses—ctrl-w does not close tab (when "emacs bindings" are enabled)

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: kdevel, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent:  

Steps to reproduce:

1. ctrl-t
2. click left into new tab's page
3. ctrl-w


Actual results:

3. nothing


Expected results:

3. close tab.

Since nightly 2012-02-02-mozilla-central.
OS: Other → Linux
Hardware: Other → x86_64
WFM with a new, clean profile:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120304 Firefox/13.0a1
Does it even WFY if you skip STR #2?  Then you probably have no .gtkrc-2.0 containing

   gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

in your home directory.
I've no .gtkrc-2.0 at all in my home directory.
Summary: click into new tab page no longer focusses—ctrl-w does not close tab click into new tab page no longer focusses—ctrl-w does not close tab → click into new tab page no longer focusses—ctrl-w does not close tab (when "emacs bindings" are enabled) click into new tab page no longer focusses—ctrl-w does not close tab (when "emacs bindings" are enabled)
Then you probably have no "emacs keybinding", i.e. clear input field with ctrl-u, delete words backwards with ctrl-w etc. (explained in e.g. Bug 259810)
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard Navigation
WFM in Firefox 28.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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