Firefox reopen last tab issue

March 29, 2007 6:53 PM

In Firefox 2+, if I am on a Meta page and I click ctrl + shift + t to reopen the last tab, it jumps me down to the comment text box and places opening and closing em tags in it. If this is a Meta shortcut, could it perhaps be changed to not interfere with the Firefox shortcut, since I think a lot of MeFites use Firefox?
posted by IndigoRain to Bugs at 6:53 PM (14 comments total)

ctrl-shift-T doesn't do anything in Firefox for me. Is it a keyboard mapping you created?
posted by DU at 7:09 PM on March 29, 2007

is that what you are talking about? I'm running Firefox 1.50.11. I know my keyboard is not mapped.
posted by JujuB at 7:11 PM on March 29, 2007

oops, it doesn't show...it's what IndigoRain said.
posted by JujuB at 7:12 PM on March 29, 2007

Huh, does the same thing for me. Never knew about that reopen last tab thing.
posted by puke & cry at 7:23 PM on March 29, 2007

Huh. It does it for me, too—pops open the previously-closed tab, but in the originating thread leaves a <em></em> in the comment box.

A few notes:

- Nothing notable happens when enacting the shortcut from the front page of the grey;
- I think the only reason it's jumping to the comment box is because of the observed introduction of content;
- ctrl-shift-b does strong tags.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:27 PM on March 29, 2007

Ctrl+Shift+B, as well as adding strong tags, clashes with Firefox's 'open the bookmarks sidebar' command. It'd be good if we could get these keyboard shortcuts removed from the mefi 'live preview' javascript. Or perhaps someone can come up with shortcuts that don't clash with Firefox.

Specifically, the following part should be removed/replaced from comments.js:

else if (document.getElementById) {
ctrl=e.ctrlKey; shft=e.shiftKey; chr=e.charCode;
if (ctrl) if (shft) if (chr==65) pnhEditTextarea("comment", "a_href");
if (ctrl) if (shft) if (chr==66) pnhEditTextarea("comment", "strong");
if (ctrl) if (shft) if (chr==84) pnhEditTextarea("comment", "emphasis");
}

posted by Aloysius Bear at 7:31 PM on March 29, 2007

That's bizarre. I also never knew about the reopen last tab feature.

Also, maybe these shortcuts should be documented in the FAQ? I remember reading about them upon their introduction, but never use them, and thus don't know all the available ones. People shouldn't be forced to search through MeTa threads to learn about an obscure feature.
posted by kyleg at 7:36 PM on March 29, 2007

Also, maybe these shortcuts should be documented in the FAQ?

Sure, though I had no idea they existed until this moment.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:58 PM on March 29, 2007

People shouldn't be forced to search through MeTa threads to learn about an obscure feature.

Well, I can't claim to have been aware of the shortcuts, but they are documented in the tooltips for the bold, italic, and link (ctrl - shift - a) buttons under the posting box. Unless, of course, someone changed that just now.
posted by donnagirl at 8:10 PM on March 29, 2007

I mentioned this once a little while ago.
posted by Partial Law at 8:27 PM on March 29, 2007

Huh. It does it for me, too—pops open the previously-closed tab, but in the originating thread leaves a <em></em> in the comment box.
Does this for me, too - Firefox 2.0.0.3/Win XP.
posted by dg at 8:44 PM on March 29, 2007

ctrl+shft+e doesn't seem to do anything in FireFox.
Same for ctrl+shft+s.
Maybe the shortcuts could be changed to those.
posted by carsonb at 9:44 PM on March 29, 2007

Didn't do it for me once. Then it did it when I tried a second time. Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows.
posted by Plutor at 3:48 AM on March 30, 2007

Me too - WinXP, FF 1.5.0.01

Don't know yet what cmd-shft-t will do on my powerbook, as the wireless connection seems to have hung up.
posted by rtha at 9:42 AM on March 30, 2007