Firefox 2.0 Keyboard Shortcuts with Tasks Pro

Just a quick note about some undocumented functionality in Tasks Pro, Alex King's Task Management software.

I love working directly with the keyboard, and Tasks Pro does include keyboard shortcuts to accomplish a number of tasks. However, Firefox 2.0 (for reasons unknown), doesn't like the standard Ctrl+ or Alt+ keyboard accelerators. Instead, it requires holding Shift+Alt+{accesskey} to activate the shortcut.

I've verified that this is the case in Firefox 2 on both Windows XP and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

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UPDATE
You can change this Shift+Alt behavior back to the Alt+ behaviour by modifying a hidden Firefox setting.

1. In your browser's location bar, type about:config and press the enter key.
2. In the Filter bar, start typing ui.key.generalAccessKey.
3. When you see the option in the list, double click the line and change the value from -1 (default) to 18.
4. Hit the OK button, and access keys will be available via the Alt+ short cut instead of Shift+Alt.

To access your Firefox menu bar (ie. Tools Menu), you must now use Shift+Alt instead of Alt. The accelerators are switched. To change the acclerator keys back, repeat the steps above and change the value from 18 to -1.

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