Open Bug 1468625 Opened 7 years ago Updated 3 years ago

FF 60.0.2 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 - F11 puts FF in full screen

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
60 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: jlczuk, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Build ID: 20180605171542 Steps to reproduce: I opened the macOS system preferences and disabled the F11/F12 hotkeys. Now, when I hit F11, FF maximizes. Actual results: I press F11 and FF maximizes the window Expected results: I want FF to ignore the F11 key. View->Enter Full Screen identifies ctl-cmd-f as the full screen toggle. I want F11 to be ignored or be able to configure that hotkey setting.
I see the behavioral difference in Chrome and Firefox after disabling F11/F12 hotkeys. So if "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" is checked then I see your reported issue with disabled the F11/F12 hotkeys on Firefox 60. F11 does maximise/minimize the Fx window. User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Event Handling
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core
Component: Event Handling → General
Product: Core → Firefox
F11 causes FF to enter fullscreen on other platforms. I don't know why it wouldn't do that on MacOS. (but I don't know what 'disabling hotkeys' mean. Not a MacOS user.)
@Olli, MacOS gives you the ability to modify certain keyboard shortcuts via System Preferences -> Keyboard. MacOS has system default shortcuts for its Mission Control app where F11 shows the desktop and F12 shows the dashboard. You can disable those keys so MacOS does not intercept them. This allows the currently focused application to receive those keystrokes. In my case, Chrome does nothing when F11 or F12 are pressed (which is what I want, because I touch type and frequently miss and end up hitting F11 or F12. Firefox catches the F11 and goes to full screen, and disruptive action when it happens accidentally. I have other means to go to full screen mode that I am quite happy to use. This isn't the end of the world for me, just a nuisance.
Priority: -- → P5

I don't believe this is an issue as this improves cross-platform compatibility.

That being said, an option should be added to disable "cross-platform shortcuts"

For the record, this is still the behaviour in macOS Monterey 12.4; only after disabling the keyboard shortcut in the system preferences.

Severity: normal → S3
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.