From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: For those of us with hands glued to the standard typing position, the inability of firefox to scroll vi-style is a constant irritation. The necessity to lift the hand over to the unnatural arrow keys, or god forbid, the mouse, is just burdensome. Why can't firefox obey the standard convention? - move down with the right index finger, up with the middle finger, left by reaching left, and right with the third finger? Scroll up a full page by reaching up to u, and down with the thumb. It turns out to be fairly simple to teach firefox to do this, moreover without affecting its other "normal" behaviour, so the question remains - why isn't this done standardly? I don't know that answer. It is merely necessary to add these definitions to the file, platformHTMLBindings.xml <handler event="keypress" key="h" command="cmd_scrollLeft"/> <handler event="keypress" key="j" command="cmd_scrollLineDown"/> <handler event="keypress" key="k" command="cmd_scrollLineUp"/> <handler event="keypress" key="l" command="cmd_scrollRight"/> <handler event="keypress" key="u" command="cmd_scrollPageUp" /> However, this file is well concealed in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/chrome/toolkit.jar which is a zipped bunch of files. This must be unzipped, the file edited, and the package rezipped. Please add these lines, officially, so this local modification isn't necessary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In firefox, try to scroll, using the keyboard. 2. 3. Actual Results: No scrolling. Expected Results: I would prefer firefox to obey normal conventions. Additional info:
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Oh, yes, this omission is still with us in FC6, and soon will be extended to FC7, I presume. The simple fix defined above still works. I again urge it be included standardly. I realize the reluctance to "fix" firefox, which seems to be built with Windows standards in mind, but the editing conventions of UNIX have been in common use since long before MSDOS and should not be cavalierly scrapped.
Firefox isn't an editor, so those conventions don't apply. Even if it were, we follow GNOME conventions, not vi conventions. Finally, this will have to be done upstream, not in our package. Fedora policy is to not diverge much from upstream, except where necessary. This is more of a nice to have for a few people -- definitely not enough to warrant a local patch.