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Title: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: iPPi on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 05:03:19 PM

I've noticed that Firefox 2.0 has ALT-shortcuts to open menu structures and stuff like that.  However, I can't find a way to disable this shortcut.  This impedes posting messages on a message board, since ALT-S seems to open the History menu instead of actually posting a message.

Anyone know how to disable the ALT-shortcuts?  I don't see it in the options.

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: iPPi on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 08:59:12 PM

Solution:

Type into address bar: about:config
Change:
ui.key.chromeAccess to 5
ui.key.contentAccess to 4

Thanks for the help (or lack thereof).

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: scottws on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 09:13:34 PM

Dude, I don't even know what you're talking about.  Alt-S?

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: idolminds on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 09:15:21 PM

I never knew alt-s did anything...

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: iPPi on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 09:28:07 PM

Alt+s is the quick-way to post a message on a forum after typing it so you don't have to click 'Post'.

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: scottws on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 10:15:17 PM

I just press Tab, Enter usually.  I never even knew you could disable the Alt thing.  Pretty much since the beginning of Windows, Alt was a menu shortcut key.

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: Quemaqua on Thursday, November 09, 2006, 10:32:45 PM

I had no idea ALT+S did anything either, let alone that it did something in Firefox... let alone that it did something in Firefox you can turn off.

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: Xessive on Friday, November 10, 2006, 02:15:52 PM

I thought it was universal in Windows that if you have a menu pressing ALT wills witch to it, and pressing with a key that's underlined in the menu (note the s in History) jumps to that menu item.

I never really used these shortcuts for the post/preview buttons at the bottom of the post.

Title: Re: How do you disabe ALT-Shortcuts in Firefox 2.0
Post by: Quemaqua on Friday, November 10, 2006, 03:52:22 PM

For some reason I thought history was ALT+H.  Don't ask me why I never put that together.  Yeah, that's a universal thing, and I'm not sure why I didn't notice history was S.  For some reason I was thinking it was this magical shortcut.  Shows you how often I use that stuff.  When I want to use the ALT menus I just hit alt and then scroll around with the arrows.