Bug 178075 – www-client/mozilla-firefox 2.0.0.3 has no accesskey shortcuts

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Victor Yegorov 2007-05-11 16:41:15 UTC]

Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-suspend2-r3 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.19-suspend2-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 11 May 2007 06:50:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -g -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache1-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -g -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://ftp.public.fix.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="ru en"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/gnome-experimental /usr/local/overlays/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acpi alsa apache2 bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv imagemagick imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog jbig jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap libedit libg++ libgda libnotify mad maildir midi mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pda pdf perl png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl seamonkey session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon fglrx vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.3  USE="gnome ipv6 restrict-javascript xforms xinerama xprint -bindist -debug -filepicker -java -mozdevelop -moznopango" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 36,296 kB 


Many sites have accessibility features, accesskey option of INPUT tag is one of them. Before version 2.* of firefox, one could specify a quick access key for the INPUT tag. Then visitors could use Alt+<key> shortcut to activate defined in this manner inputs. Since 2.* version Alt+<key> shortcuts doesn't work anymore.
I also wasn't able to find anything on this matter neither in Firefox's help nor in the web.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit some site, I'm using http://lingvo.yandex.ru/ --- it has accesskey='s' option for the main search input;
2. Make sure you have English layout activated (Firefox has problems with shortcuts in non-English layouts);
3. Make sure, that search input is not active (just click somewhere on the screen outside the input);
4. Press Alt+S combination. Nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Accessibility extensions (keyboard shortcuts) are not working.

Expected Results:  
Working shortcuts. If they are defined and working, then update the manual accordingly.

[Comment 1 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-05-11 17:43:29 UTC]

http://juicystudio.com/article/firefox2-accesskeys.php

Use shift+alt.

That's an upstream thing anyway.