Re: Text Cursor Movement Via Arrow Keys

[Andrea Corbellini <corbellini andrea gmail com>]

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 11:21 -0500, Jason Simanek wrote:
> Hmmm... you are right! I guess what I am experiencing this with is
> specific to Firefox on Linux. All of the text editors and other GTK
> apps seem to move the cursor consistently. I just encounter this issue
> and would use this feature the most in web forms I guess, and
> selective memory did the rest.

To be honest, I get the right behavior on Firefox, too. :-)
[FYI, I'm using Firefox 11.0 linked against GTK 2.24.10]

Are you sure that you aren't testing with some Flash or other hackish
web pages?

> One more question: The Gnome "Web" browser works consistently with GTK
> in this regard, Chromium works consistently also, why would Firefox
> have a different behavior? Firefox on OSX seems to work consistently
> with the desktop environment in this regard... I guess I'll take it up
> with the Firefox people.
> 
> Thanks for so patiently setting me straight! I apologize for my ignorance.
> 
> Jason Simanek
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