1806272 - Process manager shortcut (Shift+Esc) conflicts with keybind used by Discord and other web apps

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[08xjcec48]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Steps to reproduce:

Shift + Esc has been the keyboard shortcut to mark a server as read on Discord, but now Firefox opens about:processes with it.

Neither Discord or Firefox let users customize keyboard shortcuts.

Comment 1

[peter]

This is a also a problem for vim bindings when using jupyter-lab.
Please either make this change optional or get rid of it! Before a breaking change like this is added, it would be better to first add the ability to change/disable key bindings in Firefox.

Comment 2

[jscher2000]

We are noticing user complaints on SUMO:

• https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1399619 (Discord)
• https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1400298 (site not specified)

There are precedents for allowing users to disable some shortcuts, such as:

• accessibility.browsewithcaret_shortcut.enabled
• browser.quitShortcut.disabled

More generally for anyone reading, users are proposing on Mozilla Connect to provide full control over keyboard shortcut mapping, and this has been elevated to a Trending Idea (it needs more votes/kudos to progress): Customizable hotkeys

Comment 3

[zane.selvans]

I am also experiencing and frustrated by this shortcut conflicting with my vim keybindings in JupyterLab.

Comment 4

[soarentheskies]

Just popping in to say this is the camel that broke the camels back. I cannot disable autoupdates and now everytime I use discord it is infuriating.

Goodbye Firefox.

Comment 5

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Comment 6

[firefoxaccount]

Can the hotkey for the process manager be disabled somehow? Or perhaps can the entire process manager be disabled?

Customizable hotkeys would be nice in general, but this new hotkey is very annoying since it breaks websites. The process manager is neat and all, but it's probably not too useful for most users, especially compared to the websites and extensions they're using.

Comment 7

[mike.d.richman]

I'm also extremely frustrated by how this breaks jupyterlab+vim. This is a dealbreaker – suddenly I have to use another browser like Chrome/Chromium for working with data.

Comment 8

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Managed to reproduce the issue on:

• Firefox 111.0;
• Nightly 112.0a1;

Tested and reproduced on:

• macOS 12;
• Windows 11;

Setting as NEW.

Comment 9

[Jay]

This keyboard shortcut also conflicts with the SuperStop addon.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/

Comment 10

[deven.phillips]

I would also like to see a solution for this issue. Using Discord a lot is frustrating since this change.

Comment 11

[Nova DasSarma]

+1ing here - happy to provide a patch if this is welcomed by the project.

Comment 12

[08xjcec48]

I am hearing from a LOT of users that custom hotkeys is the way to go. It's pretty high on the list of ways to approach this!
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/hotkeys-yes-please/td-p/57804