546899 - OS X Application Shortcuts not integrating correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 429824

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

I'm trying to get some of my own custom keyboard shortcuts working, as OS X lets you define. Specifically, (in Snow Leopard), in System Preferences, choose Keyboard; then the Keyboard Shortcuts tab at the top; then "Application Shortcuts" from the list on the left. Click the "+" to add a new application, then navigate to Thunderbird.app to find it. I have chosen to enter "Rewrap" in the menu title box, and given it a keyboard shortcut of ctrl-cmd-J. Click "Add", and this shortcut appears in the list. When I startup Thunderbird, it clearly "gets the message" in that when I am composing a message and go to the "Edit" menu, I see a new keyboard shortcut (the one I defined) next to "Rewrap" exactly as I defined it. However, the keyboard shortcut doesn't actually do anything when I invoke it. Hitting ctrl-cmd-J doesn't invoke a rewrap, but using the mouse and going to the menu does. I've tried to set up my own keyboard shortcut for "Delete" on the same "Edit" menu as a test, and had the same problem.

It appears to me (though I don't really know what's going on) as though Thunderbird knows about the keyboard shortcut since it appears on the menu, but doesn't respond to it appropriately.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dan]

Just to add a further note: I've had this same problem (I've remapped cut and paste using keyboard shortcuts to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4, with multiple releases of Firefox and Thunderbird.  The Edit menu shows the "^C" and "^V" commands, but using them does nothing, whereas in other programs (e.g. Safari), the remapped shortcuts work properly.

Comment 2

[raf]

This bug also affects firefox 3.5.x and 3.6.x.

Should it be reported as a separate bug or can
firefox be added to the product field of this bug?
I can't see how to do that here.

My brother has set F1 and F2 to be copy and paste
for all applications and firefox is the only application
he has for which this doesn't work.

It's been like this for years with many versions of
firefox and many versions of macosx.

Why is the status unconfirmed? It will take someone with a
mac only a few seconds to confirm this.