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VisualEditor: Alt + any key in a slug introduces a pawn in Firefox on Windows
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Description

With FireFox (compulsory) on Windows
insert a new line then enter : Alt A (or Alt + any key)

> a pawn is inserted


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
Platform: PC
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61538

Details

Reference
bz58675

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 2:35 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz58675.

Looks like alt+a doesn't fire a KeyPress event in Chrome whereas it does in FF. As slugs are always pawned, and there is no inserted content from alt+a we have a problem.

Jdforrester-WMF claimed this task.

Have re-tested; no issue any more.