Having read the comments in patch proposed by Alexander Rødseth, I must note it 
is a bit unfair to both sides:
- Web applications should have the ability to receive any key, including 
modified and even function keys, since only then the long-term dream of web 
apps replacing desktop ones can be achieved;
- Browser should have the ability to receive any key, including unmodified, 
regular ones, since there exist elaborate plugins (like Pentadactyl or 
Vimperator) which allow user to control browser using these simple keys (<d> to 
close tab, <H> to go back etc.) - it's just faster when the browser is not used 
to input text.

So I think it's better to reserve some keystrokes for browser and leave
the rest for web applications. If this is not possible (which would be
sad) then we could only resort to implementing a switch key.

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  Firefox cannot close tab (using Ctrl-w) when flash content is selected
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