295744 - no (working) keyboard shortcuts for menus on Mac

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Jeffrey Friedl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

On the Windows version of Firefox, you can open a link in a new tab via
right click (to bring up the context menu) and then 't' (the shortcut key for
"open in new tab").

This is missing on the Mac version. One must maneuver the mouse on top of the
"open in new tab" and release. It would be much nicer (*particularly* on a Mac,
with its one-button mouse) if one could enter a keyboard shortcut for menu
items, once the menu is displayed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. bring up any menu (e.g. right-click on a link)
2. note that alphabetic keystrokes are ignored
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
menu-specific actions taken upon keystrokes

This is closer to a feature request than a bug, but since the functionality
is fairly basic to the user experience, does exit on the Windows version, and
is particularly detremental (relatively spekaing) to the Mac, I've entered it here.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Macs don't have these accelerators. You have to press either the shortcut code
(which we don't display yet in the context menu, there's a bug about that) ; or
you have to use the up/down arrow keys to select the correct entry (which also
doesn't work yet, another bug). The problem is that we're not using the native
mensu for the contextmenu : bug 34572.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Macs don't use accelerators in their menus. Just look at every other application
on your Mac.