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Alt-m no longer activates the Message drop-down menu, it turns on this web page instead. CAUSE unknown - but problem gone

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dingram971
dingram971

There's probably a way for me to change the Alt-m assignment to make the keystroke do what it used to do, but I wish I didn't have to take the time. One look at the Mozilla/FF support page for Thunderbird is enough -- it's of no benefit for me to continue to open this page with every instance of Alt-m.

There's probably a way for me to change the Alt-m assignment to make the keystroke do what it used to do, but I wish I didn't have to take the time. One look at the Mozilla/FF support page for Thunderbird is enough -- it's of no benefit for me to continue to open this page with every instance of Alt-m.

Muokattu , muokkaaja Wayne Mery

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Please start thunderbird in safe mode - http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/safe-mode

Does problem go away? If it does not, please post a screen shot of what you are seeing.

Please reply to let us know results.

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Wayne Mery
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Please start thunderbird in safe mode - http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/safe-mode

Does problem go away? If it does not, please post a screen shot of what you are seeing.

Please reply to let us know results.

dingram971
dingram971 Kysymyksen kysyjä

I was too hasty in posting. On the day I filed the original post, I noticed that if I pressed alt and m simultaneously in Thunderbird, I turned on the Mozilla web page in a browser (which was driving me crazy). If I pressed alt, then lifted it, and then pressed m, I would activate the Thunderbird message drop down menu as was my wish. Today, it doesn't matter if I press them simultaneously or serially, the message menu always drops down and there's no sign of the web page. The behavior I saw the other day might have been on a timer? In any event, my dearly beloved keystrokes are working again. Apologies for the lack of patience.

Wayne Mery
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Perhaps sticky keys was involved? 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-xp/help/using-stickykeys
fox1946
fox1946

For some reason we can not hold down the Alt button and press the M. By pressing Alt and releasing it BEFORE pressing M we can get the drop down menu to work with the message.

To me that is just a minor inconvenience, but if you don't know that, it can be frustrating.

dingram971
dingram971 Kysymyksen kysyjä

Thanks to all for your replies. For several days my experience echoed that of fox1946, and now the issue seems to have evaporated altogether -- my key strokes again behave as they always have.