357287 - Installing Thunderbird altered firefox keyboard for alt+s

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Tom Waddington]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Installed thunderbird to replace netscape mail without problem.  Immediately noticed a change in the way that Firefox responded to <ALT>S when chatting in forums (PHP).  Previously, <ALT>S would submit a post.  Now it opens the "History".  Is there someway of changing this back?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open forum in firefox
2.Type in message to post or reply to a post
3.press: <alt>s to post

Actual Results:  
fails to post message but drops down "History" catagory instead

Expected Results:  
Post message in forum

Post message in forum

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

what forum
URL

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

What has the installation of Thunderbird to do with the accesskey handling of Firefox? ALT+S is the accesskey for the "History" menu. Accesskeys in websites have lower priority. IMO this bug should be closed as INVALID.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

the right combination of keys should be ALT+SHIFT+S to avoid conflicts with menus, this was changed some time ago and there is bug 349716 open on that.

probably thunderbird was installed near the firefox update that caused that behaviour, and reported as the cause (but it cannot be)