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What are the underlined letters in about:preferences#privacy for?

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Benica
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There are underlined letters in about:preferences#privacy, and I was curious about what they do/why are they underlined. This question was asked previously at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1177376, but the answer is no longer valid for current Firefox.

There are underlined letters in about:preferences#privacy, and I was curious about what they do/why are they underlined. This question was asked previously at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1177376, but the answer is no longer valid for current Firefox.

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The underlined letters are so that people using keyboard navigation only are able to select the various parts of the options page.

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Wesley Branton
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The underlined letters are so that people using keyboard navigation only are able to select the various parts of the options page.

cor-el
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Note that what I wrote in the thread you mentioned above about using "Alt + Shift + access key" to go to the next occurrence of the underlined letter still holds.
This is the same as how access keys on web pages work.