Firefox 2.0

[Alex]

I've been using 2.0 for about a month now and so far it has been as stable as the previous version for me.

I don't like the keyboard shortcuts in Firefox since they so often conflict with the Web sites I may be browsing, but while Alt-S may be new it has been enough of a problem that I just haven't used keyboard shortcuts at all for a long time. I can't remember.

However, if you don't want the History menu option (and it isn't something I would ever use, you can install the MenuEditor Add On and turn it off. This will, I believe, make Alt-S work in your preferred way again.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

However, if you don't want the History menu option (and it isn't something I would ever use, you can install the MenuEditor Add On and turn it off. This will, I believe, make Alt-S work in your preferred way again.

Score, I was JUST starting to look for exactly such a thing. Thanks.

ETA: Dang, menu's gone, but the shortcut still doesn't work. It was the one keyboard shortcut I DID use consistently in Firefox 1.x. Sigh.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Score, I was JUST starting to look for exactly such a thing. Thanks.

ETA: Dang, menu's gone, but the shortcut still doesn't work. It was the one keyboard shortcut I DID use consistently in Firefox 1.x. Sigh.

Test of Alt-S

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Test of Alt-S

Hmm, that implies that it worked for you. Do you have Google toolbar installed, because for me, Alt-S just puts the cursor focus on the toolbar search field.

[Alex]

Looks like Firefox 2.0 has the accesskey set to Alt-Shift by default.

Type "about:config" into your menu bar.
Enter "ui.key.contentAccess" into the filter line
The value is probably currently 5. Right click on the line and select Modify and change it to 4.

Now, this will disable Alt for accessing menu shortcuts. However, it will mean that menu keyboard shortcuts are also triggered by Alt and there could be conflict.

To change what triggers menu shortcuts modify "ui.key.chromeaccess"

In either item possible values are:

1 - Use Shift
2 - Use CTRL
3 - Use Shift-CTRL
4 - Use ALT
6 - Use CTRL-ALT
7 - Use Shift-CTRL-ALT

[Alex]

I don't have the Google Toolbar, see this old thread for discussion of that. If you have multiple things in the window using the same accesskey value then that is going to be a problem. I don't know if Google Toolbar counts at chrome or content (if the former then you can separate them but if the latter then not).

[Alex]

Another test