This is from bug 436304: <key id="key_listAllTabs" key="&listAllTabs.commandkey;" modifiers="accel,shift" oncommand="allTabs.open(true);"/> &listAllTabs.commandkey; is "a". When an input field or textarea has focus, this selects all instead of executing the above command on Linux. I think this regressed a few months ago.

This bug is a major annoyance. Any chance someone could look into fixing it?

Is this still an issue ?

Opening addons manager (ctrl-shift-a) works fine to me even if an input field has focus - if that's all about FF 23b6

This is still an issue. It's not clear to me where you tested this, this bug was filed for Linux.

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #4) > this bug was filed for Linux. Sorry, I missed that part. Still an issue in nightly 25. Narrowing this down I got: first bad nightly: 2010-09-01 - bug 465900, which is 2 years later after this bug was filled So, does it still matter what ctrl-shift-a was supposed to do before the shortcut for the addons manager was introduced ?

bug 465090 instead of the above one, sorry.

(In reply to Paul Silaghi [QA] from comment #5) > So, does it still matter what ctrl-shift-a was supposed to do before the > shortcut for the addons manager was introduced ? Yes.

Could you please tell me how to test this ? I don't understand what ctrl-shift-a was supposed to do by that time.

Or it doesn't matter, should simply not to select all in the field ?

Yeah, it shouldn't select all text.

Unfortunately I couldn't get those old builds (2008-10-16) to start on Ubuntu.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130725 Firefox/25.0 Build ID: 20130725030212 Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a4c1961bf723 (latest nightly) User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130725 Firefox/24.0 Build ID: 20130725004004 Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/f61ece780449(latest Aurora) User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 Build ID: 20130722172257 Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/8b103274f2d1 (latest release) Steps to reproduce: 1. Open any website which require text input. 2. Click into the box where text can be entered. 3. Enter some text and keep cursor in the box. 4. Try Shift+Ctrl+A Expected result: Entered text in text box should not be selected. Actual result: Entered text in text box was not selected for the latest Aurora, beta and nightly.

Are you still seeing this issue?

(In reply to Samvedana (:Samvedana) from comment #13) > Are you still seeing this issue? You realize that the same question got asked a week ago? :) This is still an issue. Shift+Ctrl+A should open the add-on manager even if a text field is focused.

Dao, Samvedana was only trying to help. No one in QA has been able to reproduce this. If you're able to then please find a regression window and add it to this bug. Otherwise I don't see this moving forward.

(In reply to Anthony Hughes, Mozilla QA (:ashughes) from comment #15) > Dao, Samvedana was only trying to help. > > No one in QA has been able to reproduce this. Sigh... Paul was able to reproduce it in comment 5.

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #16) > (In reply to Anthony Hughes, Mozilla QA (:ashughes) from comment #15) > > Dao, Samvedana was only trying to help. > > > > No one in QA has been able to reproduce this. > > Sigh... Paul was able to reproduce it in comment 5. My understanding was that Paul could reproduce it before but was having trouble narrowing this down. Maybe you can help with that?

I'm using Ubuntu too, so if Paul couldn't start those old builds, I probably won't be able to do it either.

Running on ubuntu12.04LTS + libstdc++5: I cannot reproduce the problem in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 I can reproduce the problem in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060410 Firefox/1.0.8 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20 .... http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/46d73e889cb4 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130726 Firefox/25.0 ID:20130726030203

Thanks Alice. So it look like this bug is older than I originally thought. Not sure if it's worth it or even possible to narrow down the regression range between Firefox 0.9.3 and 1.0.8 to find the change that caused this.

Not sure how to reproduce with nightlies which don't have a command on Ctrl+Shift+A. Text is not selected with 2006-12-16-04-trunk.firefox-3.0a1.en-US.linux-i686, for example. Per comment #20, removing the rr request

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 Build ID 20160503030421 Works for me on latest Nightly using Ubuntu 15.04. Considering this I will close the bug. If anyone can still reproduce the issue, fell free to reopen it.

@Liviu Cirdei: What version of Firefox is this fixed in? You said it is working in Nightly 11 months ago but you didn't give the exact version. I'm testing this in v52 right now and pressing Ctrl+Shift+A still doesn't work when an input field has focus. Does this bug need to be reopened, or can we expect the fix to land in v53? v54?

How does one reopen this bug?

(In reply to Greg from comment #23) > I'm testing this in v52 right now and pressing Ctrl+Shift+A still doesn't work > when an input field has focus. Hi Greg, I can't reproduce the issue after I select the input field on google.com and then press Ctrl+Shift+A, Fx 52, Ubuntu 14.04 x64. Could you please describe your steps and what OS are you using?

Firefox ESR 45.8.0 on Debian 8 -place cursor in URL-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -place cursor in Search-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -place cursor in search box when at Google.com > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -click on open-area to remove cursor from input-field > press Ctrl+Shift+A = Add-ons Manager opens Firefox 52.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS -place cursor in URL-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -place cursor in Search-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -place cursor in search box when at Google.com > press Ctrl+Shift+A = Add-ons Manager opens -click on open-area to remove cursor from input-field > press Ctrl+Shift+A = Add-ons Manager opens Firefox 52.0.1 on Ubuntu 17.04 -place cursor in URL-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -place cursor in Search-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -place cursor in search box when at Google.com > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens -click on open-area to remove cursor from input-field > press Ctrl+Shift+A = Add-ons Manager opens As you can see, I am only able to replicate what you say on Ubuntu 16.04 and only in the Google.com search box.

Is there no way to edit posts/comments? x64 on all systems above.

(In reply to Greg from comment #26) > -place cursor in URL-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens > -place cursor in Search-bar > press Ctrl+Shift+A = nothing happens Confirmed on Fx 52, 55.01a (2017-04-14), 45.9.0 ESR, 52.1.0 ESR, Ubuntu 14.04 x64. Thank you, Greg!

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