I’ve accidentally tapped the D key when using Alt+F to open the File menu a few times. There is no matching shortcut or close-window command in that menu, yet it instantly closes the window. Can someone tell me why?
I’m not willing to try it. Does your OS perhaps contain such a combination?
It closes whole windows. You can try it safely by opening a second Firefox whole window, open a few tabs on it, and then Alt-F, D and the entire window closes. (Your first Firefox window is unaffected.)
weird. same thing happens for me, debian kde
nah, @fox pointed out that we’re all being idiots:
you activated a shortcut, notice that the d on close window is underlined in the menu.
you activated a shortcut, notice that the d on close window is underlined in the menu.
Notice that I already stated there is so such shortcut in the menu. Thus my surprise.
curious, I just went to screenshot the menu and I noticed the option only appears when you open it with alt+f, but it is there for me.
Seems to do Close Window, the same thing as Ctrl+Shift+W or Alt+F4
In fact, if I do Alt+F, I see the command “Close Window Ctrl+Shift+W” where the d character is underlined. If I just Alt and then arrow-click the File menu, I don’t see that command at all.
Ah! Yes, it’s hidden if I open the menu with the mouse, too.
A menu option that’s shown only if the menu is opened in a certain way. How confusing.
Not sure of your OS but Windows 10 has a global setting to “Underline access keys when available” that I think makes them always visible.
If you need to remove this access key, one option is a startup script. In my example in the following article I refer to them as accelerator keys:
OK. It happens here as well.
