539403 - disable "hold Option key on launch to run safe mode" behavior (interferes with running Firefox from a keyboard shortcut, e.g. using quicksilver)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[horvath.agoston]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

When using hotkey mappers like quicksilver, option key is often used for
launching/activating apps. Thus, when I try to use the option key in a key
combo to launch firefox, it always starts in safe mode.

Really annoying! I can't use any other key for this, as command is used in
applications already, and control is too far away from anything else on the
apple wired keyboard.

Is it possible to add a '-no-safe-mode' flag to firefox, or some config
option, to disable this feature? I never ever need it - I'm a fan of moving the
config dir out of the way if it goes wrong.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox from quicksilver, mapping its activation/launch to
'option' + 2, for example.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

xref 
Bug 393327 - Dock menu for Firefox could include 'Re-Open in Safe Mode
Bug 524338 - [10.6] Add dock tile plugin support to allow entering safe mode without command line

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

See also bug 507782.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

In bug 1140183 I added a check for an environment variable, MOZ_DISABLE_SAFE_MODE_KEY. I don't use QuickSilver so I don't know how easy it is to hook it up there.