User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110121 Firefox/4.0b10pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110121 Firefox/4.0b10pre STR: 1. Open console 2. Write something in the command line 3. Press Ctrl-A Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Text is selected for a moment, but then the selection disappears Expected Results: Text should remain selected Selecting text from the context menu works fine

ctrl-a has the same behavior as any other console: beginning of line

Not in Firebug console, not in Chrome console, not in IE console, etc, so "as any other console" is definitely not true. Everywhere in Firefox Ctrl-A has the same meaning - Select All. In 99% of Windows applications (note that most of Firefox users use Windows) it's the same. Why Firefox console has to be the only place where Ctrl-A does something different? For beginning of line you have Home key. I'm reopening this bug hoping that Ctrl-A will do what most users would expect it to do

(In reply to comment #2) > I'm reopening this bug hoping that Ctrl-A will do what most users would expect > it to do the bug to file is "allow customization of key bindings in the console input" 'beginning of line' will be the default keybinding.

I think the original poster is correct about what this behavior should be for Windows, based on user expectations. But, I also believe this has been covered by bug 623749. Changing the shortcut for Windows makes good sense. Only Mac and Linux users have the "beginning of line" expectation for ctrl-A.

I added dev-doc-needed to make sure the keybindings for ctrl-a and ctrl-e are documented before release

Documented: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Web_Console#Keyboard_shortcuts If there are other keyboard shortcuts, let me know.