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So, the crux of the issue is that a cross platform program is trying to use a platform keystroke convention as some other function. This type of stuff really shows what happens when you violate someone's expectations of how apps work on their OS. Squeak is another example of a program that is it's own thing.

I wonder if Firefox ignores a custom ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict ?

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I was under the impression that those bindings really only work with Cocoa applications/objects.

eg. BBEdit is supposedly Carbon and not Cocoa and it seems to ignore anything in DefaultKeyBinding.dict.

My simple bindings do seem to work in Safari but not in Chrome.

It does, as far as I can tell. (Although it's possible that this has changed in more recent versions, I haven't been able to test this.) One of the first things I do on a new Mac is set custom keybindings this way, and some apps just don't listen to it.

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