diff --git a/editor/base/nsHTMLEditor.cpp b/editor/base/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
index 0b2ce1d0c0f..bad61d29a14 100644
--- a/editor/base/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
+++ b/editor/base/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
@@ -2340,7 +2340,11 @@ NS_IMETHODIMP nsHTMLEditor::DeleteSelection(nsIEditor::EDirection aAction)
           break;
         case eToEndOfLine:
           result = selCont->IntraLineMove(PR_TRUE, PR_TRUE);
-          aAction = eNext;
+          // Bugs 54449/54452: the selection jumps to the wrong place
+          // when deleting past a <br> and action is eNext or ePrev,
+          // so setting action to eNone makes delete-to-end marginally usable.
+          // aAction should really be set to eNext
+          aAction = eNone;
           break;
         default:       // avoid several compiler warnings
           result = NS_OK;
@@ -2477,7 +2481,7 @@ nsresult nsHTMLEditor::InsertHTMLWithCharsetAndContext(const nsString& aInputStr
   // Bad things happen if you insert returns (instead of dom newlines, \n)
   // into an editor document.
   nsAutoString inputString (aInputString);  // hope this does copy-on-write
- 
+
   // Windows linebreaks: Map CRLF to LF:
   inputString.ReplaceSubstring(NS_ConvertASCIItoUCS2("\r\n"),
                                NS_ConvertASCIItoUCS2("\n"));
diff --git a/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp b/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
index 0b2ce1d0c0f..bad61d29a14 100644
--- a/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
+++ b/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
@@ -2340,7 +2340,11 @@ NS_IMETHODIMP nsHTMLEditor::DeleteSelection(nsIEditor::EDirection aAction)
           break;
         case eToEndOfLine:
           result = selCont->IntraLineMove(PR_TRUE, PR_TRUE);
-          aAction = eNext;
+          // Bugs 54449/54452: the selection jumps to the wrong place
+          // when deleting past a <br> and action is eNext or ePrev,
+          // so setting action to eNone makes delete-to-end marginally usable.
+          // aAction should really be set to eNext
+          aAction = eNone;
           break;
         default:       // avoid several compiler warnings
           result = NS_OK;
@@ -2477,7 +2481,7 @@ nsresult nsHTMLEditor::InsertHTMLWithCharsetAndContext(const nsString& aInputStr
   // Bad things happen if you insert returns (instead of dom newlines, \n)
   // into an editor document.
   nsAutoString inputString (aInputString);  // hope this does copy-on-write
- 
+
   // Windows linebreaks: Map CRLF to LF:
   inputString.ReplaceSubstring(NS_ConvertASCIItoUCS2("\r\n"),
                                NS_ConvertASCIItoUCS2("\n"));