Ctrl-W closes current tab in Chrome, does not send Ctrl-W.

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Connect to host.
2. Press Ctrl-W to delete word.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Word is deleted. Instead the tab is closed, and connection is lost without 
warning.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Chrome 8.0.552

Please provide any additional information below.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5496
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33056

Original issue reported on code.google.com by naus...@google.com on 25 Feb 2011 at 8:38

[GoogleCodeExporter]

There isn't really much I can do about this.

This is a somewhat recent (as in, the last year) change in Chrome. Javascript 
no longer has the ability to intercept this keystroke.

Feel free to file a bug at http://crbug.com but I don't expect it to get 
changed.

Original comment by zod...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2011 at 7:00

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Original comment by zod...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2011 at 7:01

• Changed state: WontFix

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Here is the bug I opened with the Chromium project to fix this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32787

Original comment by naus...@google.com on 26 Feb 2011 at 11:43

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I've also started a discussion on this issue here:

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-discuss/browse_thread/thr
ead/a5f010acdd3eb7a7/bb3d9413febd7cda#bb3d9413febd7cda

Original comment by naus...@google.com on 2 Mar 2011 at 10:35