This is greatly appreciated. Thanks. On Dec 6, 5:20 am, "Honza (Jan Odvarko)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, the fix will be included in 1.6.1 (coming soon) > Honza > > On Dec 5, 6:00 pm, Eric Ongerth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Forgive me -- Firebug's bug tracker lists issue 3721 for this. > > Several similar issues have been merged into it, and it looks like > > it's blocking for 1.6.1 thus it will be getting good attention. Link: > > >http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=3721&q=keyboard%20shor... > > > On Dec 5, 8:51 am, Eric Ongerth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Firebug 1.6.0 has keyboard shortcuts for "Go Forward" (Ctrl-Shift- > > > Right) and "Go Back" (Ctrl-Shift-Left) that pre-emptively capture > > > those key combinations, preventing regular editing in Gmail windows > > > from working correctly. When you are composing mail and use those > > > combos as normally intended -- to highlight the next word to the left > > > or the right -- nothing happens. > > > > As a workaround, you can open Firebug options > keyboard shortcuts and > > > change the shortcuts to something else. But there appears to be no > > > way to remove a shortcut entirely, or to turn off shortcuts for > > > particular pages or domains. That would be much better. I could not > > > figure out how to put nothing at all in the shortcuts for "Go Forward" > > > and "Go Back". The keyboard shortcuts dialog forced me to enter some > > > key at least. When I simply highlighted the previous contents ("Ctrl- > > > Shift-Right", for example) and pressed Backspace to delete it > > > (visually, at least) then clicked "OK" my change was not saved and the > > > existing unwanted shortcut came right back. I tried using Del instead > > > of Backspace and it only set the shortcut to Del. Very very unwanted! > > > > This would all be funny if it wasn't an intrusive and unwanted change > > > with no apparent option to turn it off. My workaround at this point > > > was to assign both "Go Forward" and "Go Back" to keys I hardly ever > > > use... I think I used the reverse quotation mark and the tilde. > > > > The Gmail support forums are, since December 2nd or 3rd, filling up > > > with people complaining that Ctrl-Shift-Left and Ctrl-Shift-Right no > > > longer work in Gmail composition windows. The devs are patiently > > > explaining that it's Firebug and people need to change their keyboard > > > shortcuts. That's well and good, and of course anyone who runs > > > Firebug should be well aware of change notes for each version. But > > > ultimately a change like this should never be made that intrusively, > > > pre-emptively, affects another (and more primary) piece of software. > > > > The same issue is true for Ctrl-Shift used with the Up, Down, PgUp, > > > and PgDown keys, though they're less commonly used. > > > > A minor fix would be to just rush a minor version update that includes > > > a checkbox to turn off keyboard shortcuts entirely, and one to turn > > > them off for a given page or domain. > > > > But the proper fix really is to go back to not stealing key combos > > > that are *very* commonly used for text editing. If a change could be > > > made in the capturing properties so that any focused text-editing > > > window would not lose those combinations to Firebug, that would be > > > cool. Or a different combination could be used by default. > > > > Sincerely, > > > Eric Ongerth > > > Grateful Firebug user until this ;)
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