For those using firefox 2, and like their Alt-S for posting...

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I couldn't find this, and just spent a while looking it up. Apologies if already posted.

I like using alt-s to submit new posts and edits. However, in firefox 2, mozilla have moved the 'accesskey' key from Alt to Shift-Alt. Which means you now need to do Shift-Alt-S to save/submit. If, like me, you find this annoying, go to about:config and set:

ui.key.chromeAccess to 5
ui.key.contentAccess to 4

Basically, Shift is 1, Ctrl is 2, Alt is 4. To get combinations, just add. contentAccess controls the keys needed for web shortcuts, and chromeAccess controls access to the menu shortcuts. I've found that if there is no web shortcut / accesskey on a page, it'll do a menu shortcut if it's there.
 
growse said:
I couldn't find this, and just spent a while looking it up. Apologies if already posted.

I like using alt-s to submit new posts and edits. However, in firefox 2, mozilla have moved the 'accesskey' key from Alt to Shift-Alt. Which means you now need to do Shift-Alt-S to save/submit. If, like me, you find this annoying, go to about:config and set:

ui.key.chromeAccess to 5
ui.key.contentAccess to 4

Basically, Shift is 1, Ctrl is 2, Alt is 4. To get combinations, just add. contentAccess controls the keys needed for web shortcuts, and chromeAccess controls access to the menu shortcuts. I've found that if there is no web shortcut / accesskey on a page, it'll do a menu shortcut if it's there.
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Thanks :D
 
This was annoying me too so I searched the forum for "Firefox alt" and this was the first result.
So now I will use this thread to test it...here goes...
 
Alt-S does nothing for me (using FF1.5) :confused:

Edit: my bad, I was expecting it to go to the "submit reply" page, which admittedly, I thought was a bit odd. I just press tab, enter, though—it has exactly the same effect :)
 
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