1430399 - Ctrl+shift+O to open options tab(about:preferences)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement, P5)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20180103231032

Steps to reproduce:

Press Ctrl+shift+O 


Actual results:

Options tab should have opened (about:preferences)




Expected results:

Options tab did not opened

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I don't recall us ever supporting ctrl+shift+O on Windows to open the preferences. On Windows and Linux we call it Options, on Mac we call it Preferences. The separate naming here could be confusing for keyboard shortcuts. On Windows, you can use Alt+T, O to open the Tools menu then O to open the Options.

Is that sufficient for you?

Comment 2

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(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #1)
> I don't recall us ever supporting ctrl+shift+O on Windows to open the
> preferences. On Windows and Linux we call it Options, on Mac we call it
> Preferences. The separate naming here could be confusing for keyboard
> shortcuts. On Windows, you can use Alt+T, O to open the Tools menu then O to
> open the Options.
> 
> Is that sufficient for you?

Please fill one more to Make Mac and Linux/Windows Option /Preferences name same

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Sorry, we don't have plans to make the names the same. Right now they are different to match platform conventions.

Comment 4

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(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #3)
> Sorry, we don't have plans to make the names the same. Right now they are
> different to match platform conventions.

What about this bug.I understand why names are not same.

Comment 5

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I closed this bug because we already have a keyboard accessible shortcut on Windows and Linux by using Alt+T, O.

Comment 6

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If Ctrl+Shift+A is Addon then for Ctrl+Shift+O it should be options.

Comment 7

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

It is not as simple to add so many keyboard shortcuts because each language we support will have to find a letter that fits and the current functionality is sufficient. We only have limited options for keyboard shortcuts and need to limit their use if ones already exist. We probably shouldn't have added a specific shortcut for Addons (Ctrl+Shift+A) but it is now there and will be hard to remove.