1419001 - The current shortcut key documentation fails to explain how to suppress shortcut keys

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Developer Tools, enhancement, P5)

Description

[David Spector]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

This page lists many Developer shortcut keys, but fails to describe how to suppress or eliminate some or all of these shortcuts. Motivation: searching the Web shows that some of these shortcuts hide or interfere with shortcuts of other global applications. In my case, they hide or interfere with my own keyboard macro shortcuts. How to suppress some or all of the many Firefox shortcut keys needs to be documented.

Comment 1

[Rayann Tedds]

Hiya,

I am currently looking for bugs to fix as part of my Open Source Development module at Coventry University and I am interested in developing this bug.

Please could you assign this task to me and give me more information.

This is my first bug fix and any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Comment 2

[David Spector]

Since the time I posted this bug, I have become aware that it is not just the Developer Tools that have this documentation limitation--Firefox itself appears to have many shortcut keys that can be detected prior to other applications seeing them via the Windows Hook, and there seems to be no documentation for suppressing those shortcut keys either. Can this report please be extended?

I also have another motivation: sometimes unexpected events happen as a result of pressing the wrong keys (I'm getting elderly at 71 years old): Firefox can close from some unknown key combination other than the standard ones. Then my development process has to pause while I figure out what happened and recover from it. If I knew for sure how to map the keyboard or suppress the shortcut keys, I wouldn't have this problem anymore.

And maybe, just maybe ths isn't just a documentation problem? Could it be that Firefox is actually designed with no way to map or suppress keystrokes?

Comment 3

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

For general Firefox support questions like this, it's probably best to ask in the Firefox support site: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/desktop.

(Although I'm afraid I the answer might be: you can't.)

Comment 4

[David Spector]

If the answer is that you can't, then this bug report becomes a suggestion for improving Firefox itself. It suggests writing an an interesting extension to about:config or even to the Tools > Options dialogs. I'd do it myself if I had the time to learn how to work on the Firefox code.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.