api.KeyboardEvent.metaKey - Windows Logo key compat note
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Description
What type of issue is this?
Incorrect support data (example: BrowserX says "86" but support was added in "40")
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
For Firefox, there is a note: "Since Firefox 48, the Windows key is no longer treated as a meta key." However, as noted elsewhere in the page, this changed back in Firefox 118.
So this should be updated to something like "In Firefox 48-117, the Windows Logo key was not treated as a meta key."
What browsers does this problem apply to, if applicable?
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What did you expect to see?
It would be more accurate to say something like "In Firefox 48-117, the Windows Logo key was not treated as a meta key."
Did you test this? If so, how?
I can only confirm that the key is detected now in Firefox 138.
Can you link to any release notes, bugs, pull requests, or MDN pages related to this?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/118#apis
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MDN URL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/metaKey
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api.KeyboardEvent.metaKey - Report started: 2025-05-28T00:52:44.552Z
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Research direction
Start at the MDN KeyboardEvent.metaKey page and compare its Firefox note with the linked Firefox 118 APIs release notes. Update the compatibility-data entry so the note covers Firefox 48–117, then verify the rendered page shows the corrected range.
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- javascript, json
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- Documentation
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