From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: CTRL-A doesn't Select-All in textfields, textareas and URL bar. Instead it jumps to the beginning of the line. This may be a Mozilla regression since a similar fixed bug in Mozilla 0.9.2. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74643 I posted the following to that bug report: In both build 200231416 (Red Hat Skipjack beta) and 2002032808 (nightly Linux) Accel-A no longer Selects-All. Instead, it makes the cursor jump to the beginning of the line in the URL bar, textfield or textarea. Ok, I now realize that Linux Netscape 4.7x behaves like this too, and CTRL-A is the Emacs keybinding to go to the beginning of the line. My friend said that "This isn't a bug because that is the behavior of GTK+, and maybe some people LIKE the Emacs-like keybinding." I like Emacs, but in this case I don't like this behavior and I rather expect it to behave identically to Windows Mozilla (and Konqueror, Opera, Internet Explorer...) Mozilla's own menu says that CTRL-A is a shortcut for Select-All, so I expect that it would work in a textfield. It doesn't make logical sense to instead jump to the beginning of the line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Skipjack-beta1 with up2date (3-27-2002) How reproducible: Always
Ctrl-A has different meanings depending whether a text field is selected or not. Ctrl-A moves the cursor to the beginning of th line when a text field is selected (and it should stay this way, IMO). Ctrl-A - Select all text on the page otherwise.
That's not a bug.