diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 browser/components/tabview/test/browser_tabview_bug595518.js
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/browser/components/tabview/test/browser_tabview_bug595518.js	Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/* Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain.
+   http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ */
+
+function test() {
+  waitForExplicitFinish();
+  
+  // show tab view
+  window.addEventListener("tabviewshown", onTabViewWindowLoaded, false);
+  TabView.toggle();
+}
+
+function onTabViewWindowLoaded() {
+  window.removeEventListener("tabviewshown", onTabViewWindowLoaded, false);
+  ok(TabView.isVisible(), "Tab View is visible");
+
+  let contentWindow = document.getElementById("tab-view").contentWindow;
+
+  let onTabViewHidden = function() {
+    window.removeEventListener("tabviewhidden", onTabViewHidden, false);
+
+    // verify exit button worked
+    ok(!TabView.isVisible(), "Tab View is hidden");
+    
+    // verify that the exit button no longer has focus
+    is(contentWindow.iQ("#exit-button:focus").length, 0, 
+       "The exit button doesn't have the focus");
+
+    // verify that the keyboard combo works (this is the crux of bug 595518)
+    // Prepare the key combo
+    window.addEventListener("tabviewshown", onTabViewShown, false);
+    EventUtils.synthesizeKey("e", { accelKey: true, shiftKey: true }, contentWindow);
+  }
+  
+  let onTabViewShown = function() {
+    window.removeEventListener("tabviewshown", onTabViewShown, false);
+    
+    // test if the key combo worked
+    ok(TabView.isVisible(), "Tab View is visible");
+
+    // clean up
+    let endGame = function() {
+      window.removeEventListener("tabviewhidden", endGame, false);
+
+      ok(!TabView.isVisible(), "Tab View is hidden");
+      finish();
+    }
+    window.addEventListener("tabviewhidden", endGame, false);
+    TabView.toggle();
+  }
+
+  window.addEventListener("tabviewhidden", onTabViewHidden, false);
+
+  // locate exit button
+  let button = contentWindow.document.getElementById("exit-button");
+  ok(button, "Exit button exists");
+
+  // click exit button
+  button.focus();
+  EventUtils.sendMouseEvent({ type: "click" }, button, contentWindow);
+}