Open Bug 866639 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

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

Categories

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

20 Branch
defect

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(Reporter: michael, Unassigned)

References

Details

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)
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard Navigation
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?
Component: Keyboard Navigation → Downloads Panel
Try using Alt + F4 instead.
Blocks: 675902
Severity: normal → minor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
(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.
Severity: minor → S4
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