87620 - Cannot enter ALT keybindings consecutively without releasing ALT key

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 52007

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[doctor__j]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010622
BuildID:    2001062211

For example, you want to manage your bookmarks by opening the "Bookmarks" menu
and select "Manage Bookmarks..." command.

Using keyboard navigation only, you have to:
1. press and hold <ALT> key,
2. press and release <B> key,
3. release <Alt> key, and then:
4. press and hold <ALT> key,
5. press and release <M> key,
6. release <Alt> key,

It would speed up key nav speed by saving Steps 3 and 4.
I can do it in Windows Notepad.  Can Moz do it?

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->aaronl. punt as needed.

i see this on winnt and linux [2001.06.25.xx am comm branch bits]. using dr_j's
test above, if you don't release the Alt key at step (3), you end up dismissing
the Bookmarks menu.

Comment 2

[timeless]

these should work:
<alt>;b;m
<alt>-b;m

a-b means a in conjunction w/ b.
a;b means a released before pressing b

Comment 3

[:deanis74]

Confused.  Is this request to have this work?

1. Press Alt.
2. Press B (Bookmarks menu opens)
3. Press M (Manage Bookmarks window opens)
4. Release Alt.

Comment 4

[timeless]

welp according to nc4 and notepad, that general feature should work :o.

reporter: imoi the two strokes i described are much easier than the one you're 
asking us to support. But this bug is fine since we should support what you're 
asking for...

Comment 5

[doctor__j]

Well, to tell the truth, I can get to the Pref menu real fast simply by pressing
Alt-E-E.  Yeah, I'm a Pref tweaking freak...  I looooove tweaking pref.

Comment 6

[:deanis74]

Accepting and targetting, based on my interpretation on 2001-06-25.

Comment 7

[:deanis74]

I knew I'd seen this before...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52007 ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.