Attempted in Firefox 3.6.18 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu). It doesn't close the tab there either. However, a clicking animation does appear when the space bar is pressed. I believe this should still be considered a bug regardless of if closing the tab is the correct behavior. In my opinion, either the clicking animation should be removed or the tab should close. Having a response to the keyboard that does not result in a useful action is not appropriate. (Of course, this situation is so hard to find that it may not be worth fixing.)
I later tried reproducing this issue in an Official Windows build of Firefox (5.0.1). In Windows, you cannot focus on the close button, hence pressing spacebar does not cause the clicking animation. Given that Windows Firefox does not close the tab (and you cannot even focus on the close button), this suggests that focusing on the close button is the actual error. Later still, I installed 11.04 in a VM and uninstalled the default Firefox. I then downloaded a Firefox build (5.0.1) from the Mozilla website and tested this issue from their build. This issue also occured in the Mozilla build of Firefox. I searched upstream for a similar bug but did not find one. Shouldn't we open a bug upstream? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779581 Title: “Close” button in tabs not responding with the keyboard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/779581/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
