I was severely annoyed by the new behavior of the Alt key (FF 75, Ubuntu 20.04, Unity 7).
If I move the window using Alt + mouse drag (which I frequently do), the menu opens up. Subsequent letters I type aren't sent to the webpage, but navigate the menu. Another lone Alt keypress doesn't close it either (well, pressing it closes, but then releasing the key opens the menu bar again), so I have to reach out to Esc to close it. This behavior was unacceptable for me. I first found the workaround of enabling View -> Toolbars -> Menu bar. This way the menu bar is always visible, and the super annoying behavior of Alt is gone. Alas, there's a price to pay in terms of wasted screen real estate. After a bit more searching I found an even better workaround. Instead of the previous one, go to about:config and set ui.key.menuAccessKey to -1. Then the browser needs to be restarted. A lone Alt key (or Alt + moving the window) no longer opens up the menu bar. However, Alt+F, Alt+E etc., as well as F10 still open it up, so all the functionality, in their familiar layout is still conveniently available. It's not as good as Unity integration used to be, but almost as good; to me it's an acceptable minor inconvenience. I hope I could help some people with this comment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1859123 Title: No global menus (panel-appmenu / dbus) in Firefox 72.0.1 Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: No global menus are displayed in latest Firefox 72.0.1 (possibly in a slightly earlier version). This issue was observed on three different systems all running Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Focal (development), and I first noticed it on each system upon updating to 72.0.1 today. The symptoms are identical to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu- mate/+bug/1743687 , but running `env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 firefox` does not resolve the issue. `env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=1 firefox` does not resolve the issue either. My first guess is that the issue is a change in Firefox, due to how the previous solution with the environment variable no longer works. (Perhaps a change to the Unity menu patch?) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1859123/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
