[Vimperator] Gmail and lost keys...

[Lee Hinman]

Martin Stubenschrott wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:13:13PM +0100, Pierre Andrews wrote:
>> I found a similar problem, where vimperator was leaving the 'esc' key
>> reaching the webpage instead of capturing the keystroke event. This
>> time was in google calendar  where esc cancels the creation of an
>> event (close the "modal" dialogue), but this is a problem that could
>> happen anywhere I think.
>> It seems that vimperator leeks keys ;)
> 
> It seems that there is no strict priority in Firefox, that extensions
> retrieve keys before a website does. It would be nice if there was (I
> heard, in firefox 3.0 there will be changes to this)
> 
> Still would be nice to have a web site to test where I don't need to
> register. You could also try to uncomment alert(key);
> in the vimperator.js onVimperatorKeypress() function, and see whether the
> Esc goes to vimperator first, or whether gmail gets it first.

Here's a website you can use: en.wikipedia.org, for some reason, the 
ctrl-f that wikipedia uses to give focus to the search box is overriding 
the ctrl-f Vimperator does to scroll down a page, extremely annoying.

- Lee