Closed Bug 1709565 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

[macOS] Access keys don't trigger commands in context menu (e.g. typing Q for "Inspect Element")

Categories

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Firefox 89
Unspecified
macOS
defect

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: himself, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using:

  • Firefox Developer Edition 89.0b8 (64-bit)
  • macOS 10.15.4 (19E266)

Steps:

  • Right click inside the viewport to show the context menu.
  • Press Q.

Actual results:

The third option ("Reload") is highlighted, but not "clicked".

Expected results:

The Web Developer Tools should have opened to inspect the element under the cursor. To do this now requires moving the cursor down or using arrow keys to navigate to "Inspect Element" and clicking it or pressing Enter.

Was this change intentional? It sounds silly, but <Right click> + Q is one of the best quality-of-life improvements Firefox offers me over Chrome. Please consider reverting the change if it was intentional.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Inspector' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Inspector
Product: Firefox → DevTools

This is a known effect of using native menus on macOS (access keys don't work, as they're not a native feature, unlike Linux and Windows).

For now, it's possible to disable native menus via about:config (widget.macos.native-context-menus set to false in about:config).

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Component: Inspector → Menus
Product: DevTools → Firefox
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Summary: <Right click> + Q doesn't open the Web Developer Tools (via "Inspect Element") → [macOS] Access keys don't trigger menus (e.g. typing Q for "Inspect Element")
OS: Unspecified → macOS
Summary: [macOS] Access keys don't trigger menus (e.g. typing Q for "Inspect Element") → [macOS] Access keys don't trigger commands in context menu (e.g. typing Q for "Inspect Element")

Understood – thank-you for the quick reply!

Doesn't seem like widget.macos.native-context-menus is doing it for me in 89.

(In reply to tonyli.lives from comment #8)

Doesn't seem like widget.macos.native-context-menus is doing it for me in 89.

Did you restart the browser?

See Also: → 1750387
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