1604061 - app shortcut overwriting not working on macos

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1333781

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[sebastian.hofstetter]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

On macos, you can overwrite application shortcuts (hotkeys) via system settings->keyboard->shortcuts->application shortcuts.

While e.g. overwriting "command+c"->"ctrl+c" for copy works without problems, "command+v"->"ctrl+v" does not work for pasting. If I choose "ctrl+g" for pasting instead, it works without problems. So somehow "ctrl+v" is buggy and cannot be overwritten.

Comment 1

[Jeronimo Torti (Please send NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi,

Thanks for submitting this bug to us!

I was unable to reproduce this issue on my end (MacOS 10.14.5) since once you overwrite Firefox shortcuts (via system settings->keyboard->shortcuts->application shortcuts) the changes finally are not applied. Remind the new menu title must match the current name in menu. If the command Ctrl+V is already being used, it needs to be first disabled for the new one to work.

You could try to overwrite shortcuts via 'Saka key' add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/saka-key/
Firefox > Settings > Help > Keyboard shortcuts

If after doing this you can still reproduce the bug, would you send a screenshot or a video of the bug?

Thanks in advance. I've already chosen a component for this bug in hope that someone with more expertise may look at it. We'll await their answer.

Best regards,
Jerónimo.

Comment 2

[sebastian.hofstetter]

I'm on MacOS 10.14.6 with Firefox 71.0.

I'm sure that the hotkeys is registered correctly:

• It works in other applications
• Firefox shortly highlights the "Edit" item of the menu bar when I hit "ctrl+a" or "ctrl+v"
• Firefox shows that "Paste" has the hotkey "ctrl+v" and "Select All" has the hotkey "ctrl+a" in the menu

But instead, Firefox will jump to the beginning of the line (ctrl+a) or the end of the line (ctrl+v). Copy (ctrl+c) on the other hand works as desired.
The problem persists even when I explicitly overwrite the "Go to Beginning of Line" with something else.

I also attached a Screenshot.

Comment 3

[sebastian.hofstetter]

Attachment: Screenshot 2019-12-21 at 12.56.31.png

Comment 4

[sebastian.hofstetter]

Regarding the "Saka" Addon:
Thanks for the suggestion, but installing an Addon that has "Access to all my data" while being unsupervised by Mozilla sounds like a very bad idea :(

Comment 5

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl] (OOO until 3/13)]

This is a duplicate of bug 1333781.