After a fruitful discussion on IRC, we came up with the following
observations:
Firefox behaviour after pressing ctrl+backspace is different from what
you see in other GNOME applications. Here are the differences:
1. If you select some text from left to right and press ctrl+backspace,
it should remove the parts of the string word by word. Firefox does
something different - it removes all the highlighted words, except the
last one, so: 'one two three' becomes: 'three'.
2. If you select some text from right to left and press ctrl+backspace,
it should remove everything before the selection, word by word. Firefox
removes the highlighted word and the one before it, so 'one two three'
with 'three' selected becomes: 'one '
Please also keep in mind that in GNOME, words can be separated not only
with white-space characters, but also with '/' and possibly some more
characters.
I think that we should try make Firefox as much GNOME-compliant as
possible, but I'm don't know if the ctrl+bs behaviour is defined in GTK,
GNOME or Ubuntu itself, so I refrained from forwarding this bug
upstream.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Status: Needs Info => Confirmed
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ctrl + backpace does not erase highlighted text
https://launchpad.net/bugs/63012
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