Firefox >

https://web.archive.org/web/20210421104651/http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility_features_of_Firefox

Firefox 3 ∞

I also set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses;true

Firefox2 ∞

Accesskeys are fucked. Now they’re all alt-shift-<key>. They shouldn’t be called “access” keys anymore. They’re too annoying to access. https://juicystudio.com/article/firefox2-accesskeys.php

• Under Windows XP, alt-shift is a hotkey to swap the change keyboard language preference. This means that you’re going to be silently swapping languages every once and a while.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091208052958/http://www.prugo.de:80/blog/index.php?p=80

See https://web.archive.org/web/20210314162309/http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.key.generalAccessKey

1. Visit about:config
2. Assign ‘alt‘ as the accesskey modifier: Filter with ui.key.generalAccessKey

3. change it to integer 18

You shouldn’t need to quit/restart FireFox.

This setting undo itself if you end up launching FireFox 1.5 again. =(

Hotkeys in JavaScript ∞

If the alt-key has been implemented via JavaScript, and the script doesn’t “return false” from onkeydown/etc and so the menu keeps getting accessed, you can completely disable Firefox using alt to access the menu:

• Filter with ui.key.menuAccessKey
• change it to integer 0
• quit FireFox

• restart FireFox

Doing this will also remove the underlining for the menus.

• This works, but it also disables the hotkeys for right-click menus!

  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100305 Unity/1.9.2-0.1 (2010) Firefox/3.6.3
  • I ended up using http://menueditor.mozdev.org ^[ 1 ] see https://mozdev.mirrors.hoobly.com/menueditor/ to remove ‘history’ entirely.