Alt-KEY handled as KEY on Firefox
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Description
Hello,
recently I've noticed that keypresses with Alt modifier are treated as those without by Vimium Firefox addon.
For instance, Alt-D is processed as 'D', Alt-F as 'F'. Adding "unmap d" helps, but obviously disables 'd' functionality.
Firefox: 68.0
Vimium: 1.64.6
OS: Arch Linux
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No file, test, or entry point is named. First reproduce the behavior in Firefox with the reported Vimium and OS versions, then trace the keyboard-event handling and modifier detection. Done means Alt-D and Alt-F remain distinct from D and F without requiring an unmap.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
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- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
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