Comment 17 for bug 50254

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:12:46PM -0000, Jeff Abbott wrote:
> I agree that this change should be the default on Ubuntu. As someone
> who uses multiple platforms this is quite irritating, and I'm glad to
> have at least found a solution I can use on my own thanks to this
> Launchpad entry. For what it's worth, this preference is set to true in
> both Windows and Mac OS X Firefox builds (except, of course, in Mac OS X
> the key sequence is option+delete instead of ctrl+backspace).
>
> I don't know if we should be considering consistency with other Unix
> applications and platforms -- which seems to be Mozilla's point of view,
> and rightly so for them -- so much as consistency with other Ubuntu apps
> and other platforms with which many of us work on a daily basis.
> "Muscle memory" accounts for a lot of my productivity, and I'd imagine
> I'm not alone in this.
>

in the long run we will always stick to the behaviour that mozilla.org
chooses. this one is not an exception

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status wontfix

 - Alexander