[Bug 779581] Re: “Close” button in tabs not responding with the keyboard

[eviljoel]

Attempted in Firefox 3.6.18 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu).  It doesn't
close the tab there either.  However, a clicking animation does appear
when the space bar is pressed.  I believe this should still be
considered a bug regardless of if closing the tab is the correct
behavior.  In my opinion, either the clicking animation should be
removed or the tab should close.  Having a response to the keyboard that
does not result in a useful action is not appropriate.  (Of course, this
situation is so hard to find that it may not be worth fixing.)

I later tried reproducing this issue in an Official Windows build of
Firefox (5.0.1).  In Windows, you cannot focus on the close button,
hence pressing spacebar does not cause the clicking animation.  Given
that Windows Firefox does not close the tab (and you cannot even focus
on the close button), this suggests that focusing on the close button is
the actual error.

Later still, I installed 11.04 in a VM and uninstalled the default
Firefox.  I then downloaded a Firefox build (5.0.1) from the Mozilla
website and tested this issue from their build.  This issue also occured
in the Mozilla build of Firefox.  I searched upstream for a similar bug
but did not find one.  Shouldn't we open a bug upstream?

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