321418 - No pref for disabling FAYT hotkeys

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254592

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Jos Vermeulen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

My father uses homebanking, meaning he must type a lot of "/"'s. Most of the time, Firefox intercepts those and spawns the FAYT dialog. In the meanwhile, I found no other way than to to make him use MSIE again. That's another bug, but what bothers me, is that I haven't found a way to disable this "feature" yet. There's should be a pref for this. Even better, that "disable FAYT hotkey" should be off by default.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search for FAYT hotkey pref

Actual Results:  
Don't find anything.

Expected Results:  
Find it.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

We usually don't add features in order to allow users to work around bugs.  That leads to UI bloat, which is worse in the long term.

If you can find a way to reproduce the problem (typing / makes the Find bar appear even though you were typing into a textbox) with a simple testcase, file a new bug report and make it block bug 320465.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254592 ***