Okay, I’ve figured out the key combination in FCKeditor that’s causing me grief: I’m used to typing Command + Left Arrow to go to the start of the current line in an editor. While this works as expected in a normal input field, if I do this in FCKEditor it’s interpreted as “back” by the Firefox and takes me back to the previous page, therein losing everything I’ve typed into the editor.
Apparently this is a Mac Firefox-only issue, and is discussed in this blog post and this Firefox bug report.
While some recommend Keyfixer as a Firefox add-on that fixes this issue, I couldn’t get it to work, and opted, instead, for keyconfig.
To install keyconfig, just visit this page, click on the link to the latest keyconfig.xpi file, and install the add-on. Once it’s installed and Firefox has restarted, select Tools > Keyconfig in Firefox, select the row named goBackKb that’s set to ⌘Left Arrow and click Disable.
Once I did this, using FCKeditor in Firefox on my Mac became a much more pleasurable experience, what with the whole “you could lost everything with one careless keystroke” somewhat removed.
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Seems that losing the form
Seems that losing the form contents by navigating away from the page is a bug as well - a good form should still maintain the contents if you navigate away from, and then back to, the page. Probably FCKeditor’s fault?
Thanks Peter - look like a
Thanks Peter - look like a must have. There is also a Drupal module that displays a dialogue box when you stray from an edit page without saving. It allows you to confirm or return, effectively doing away with this problem in most circumstances. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of the module :-( I will check with our Drupal team and let you know.
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