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alt-d stops working until I restart Firefox

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phsiii
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On two different Windows machines, current Firefox (153.0.1), the alt-d shortcut stops working: it does nothing until I restart Firefox. Then it works again for a while. I've tried about:keyboard and it's not reset there. I tried all combinations: Clear, Reset, setting it to alt-d explicitly. None of those worked. But when I set it to alt-a, that worked--but then resetting back to alt-d again didn't work. That shortcut is muscle memory at this point, so it's quite distressing. Not sure what diagnostics might be available to help here, happy to try anything.

Full disclosure: Both machines are Windows 10 but since that's stable, I find it hard to believe that's related.

On two different Windows machines, current Firefox (153.0.1), the alt-d shortcut stops working: it does nothing until I restart Firefox. Then it works again for a while. I've tried about:keyboard and it's not reset there. I tried all combinations: Clear, Reset, setting it to alt-d explicitly. None of those worked. But when I set it to alt-a, that worked--but then resetting back to alt-d again didn't work. That shortcut is muscle memory at this point, so it's quite distressing. Not sure what diagnostics might be available to help here, happy to try anything. Full disclosure: Both machines are Windows 10 but since that's stable, I find it hard to believe that's related.

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jbr
jbr
  • Top 10 Contributor

If you compare that to Ctrl+L — does that one keep working, or it also ceased to function over time / at the same moment?

phsiii
phsiii Question owner

Will try that when it breaks again! Of course now after doing it repeatedly it won't misbehave for weeks...

jbr
jbr
  • Top 10 Contributor

There's some preliminary investigation in bugzilla.mozilla.org/2050947 — potentially linked to update notification panel consuming that shortcut — while the other one should be unaffected.

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