October 25, 2006
So Firefox 2.0 was released…
Is it good? Yes.
Is it flawed? Yes.
They changed the way access keys work, it used to be ‘alt’+'key’, now in FF2, you press ‘alt’+’shift’+'key’, fair enough you say, no big change, just have to press shift as well…
There are two access keys in this post, one is “H”, which will take you to my homepage, one is “zero” which should take you to the getfirefox website…
…guess which one works?
The new method doesn’t work with numbers!
try it now (in FF2.0) ‘alt’+’shift’+'zero’…
…going anywhere?
…guess what the UK Government recommend for access keys?
oh well, at least its not IE…
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Neither of ‘em work for me (FF2 on Mac).
No combination of Shift, Ctrl, Alt or Apple + 0 or h do anything at all, except for Apple-H which hides the window, and Apple-Shift-H which shows the history sidebar.
Meh.
does ‘owt happen in Safari?
Works fine in Safari – ctrl+0 and ctrl+h do the equivalent stuff.
And today, for some reason, it also works fine in Firefox 2 (on Mac again, same configuration as yesterday).
You have to use ctrl rather than alt, but shift is not required…
…thanks.
…thought it might.
fixed in an update…