Fierfox 2 and the ALT key

erik258 · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:29 am Post subject: Fierfox 2 and the ALT key

Recently upgraded to ~amd64 Firefox 2.0.0.1. All works well, except pressing alt+i alt+w alt+q or c (forums shotcuts) don't work.

can anyone help me ?
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martin20450 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

Try holding the <shift> key while you use your shortcuts

erik258 · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

Yay! It works!!!

Thank you so much; this was instrumental to my posing here the way I like, with lots of italics.

I don't suppose anyone knows how to make it so i don't have to press 'shift' ?
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zxy · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:

Yup. Easy. Use konqueror. Much simpler.

Ctrl, b - for bold (control, then b, not ctrl+b)
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bladus · Apprentice Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 233

Go to about:config and set the value of the following keys to: