Closed Bug 1710663 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Non-native context menu shortcuts broken

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Firefox 89
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1709565

People

(Reporter: headhipster, Unassigned)

Details

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

Steps to reproduce:

Case 1:
Open context menu through right-click (or ctrl+click)
Keydown 'Q' to trigger 'Inspect' action

Case 2 (extension access key https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/menus/create):
Install extension 'Send to Todoist' and configure with personal token
open context menu through right click (or ctrl+click)
hover / focus on Send to Todoist action
keydown '2' to trigger second project selection in sub-menu

Actual results:

Case 1:
'Reload' action is highlighted

Case 2:
Back action is highlighted / focused

Expected results:

Case 1:
'Inspect' action is focused and activated to open web inspector

Case 2:
Sub-menu access key should trigger sub-menu item

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

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Cocoa
Product: Firefox → Core

Access keys do not normally work like this on macOS. We moved to a more native implementation of these context menus in Firefox 89, which improves OS integration. Sadly, this also means the access key behaviour in those menus now matches that of macOS itself.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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