358114 - Keyboard (Alt + <key>) Shortcuts for buttons on webpage overriden by menus (Regression)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 349716

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Brian Kaul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Buttons on webpages (For example, the "Submit" button on new post/edit post pages on vBulletin message boards such as the one linked) that have keyboard shortcuts mapped to them (Alt + S for submit/Alt + P for preview in this case) no longer work.

In FF 1.0.x and 1.5.x, and in IE, these keyboard shortcuts have the effect of pressing the button on the webpage, as expected.

In FF 2.0, the behavior is to open an associated menu (as would be expected when Alt is pressed/released, and then the letter key is pressed), or do nothing at all if no menu has that key associated with it (so in the given example, Alt + S opens the History menu, and Alt + P does nothing).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a webpage that has buttons that should respond to Alt + <key> shortcuts
2. Attempt to use Alt + <key> in place of the mouse to activate the associated function

Actual Results:  
If a menu exists with the associated key, it will open; otherwise nothing.

Expected Results:  
The behavior should be as if the button on the webpage associated with the key combination had been clicked.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 349716 ***