<![CDATA[Alt key opens menu]]>Hi, when I press the Alt key on my keyboard, it opens the opera menu. I do not like this and when I hold alt for rebloggging something on tumblr or for whatever purpose, up this annoying thing pops.

I have searched the forums for a way to stop this but they are all for out dated versions of opera like 15; I am on 18. Examples of help I have seen is going to the Preferences, clicking advanced and editing the keyboard setup:
like so

I do [Alt]+[P] as it says, bringing me to this:

There is no advanced tab or keyboard set-up section.

Also, on this page, it says that [Alt] + [F] will open the menu, it does, but I do not need to press [F] top open it.

Opera "help"

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/286/alt-key-opens-menuRSS for NodeSun, 07 Jun 2026 05:51:23 GMTMon, 09 Dec 2013 18:12:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:42:51 GMT]]>@redcapshortcut Sadly seems like this does not work anymore. Any other tricks to prevent it?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/242111https://forums.opera.com/post/242111Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:42:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:51:39 GMT]]>I faced the same problem - I'm using online software that uses Alt+Mouse to rotate camera view and I was annoyed seeing Opera menu pop up every time I rotated camera. When I understood that in new Opera customizing keyboard isn't possible, I tried to make a custom extension that will just run the script everywhere and disable default Alt's action on every page, but that turned out harder than I thought. Then I found this Violent monkey Extension, that lets you execute your custom scripts everywhere or just on specific websites.

Just add this script to the extension and you're good to go.

// ==UserScript==
// @name    Disable Alt key
// @include http://<specific site's domain>/*
// @grant   none
// ==/UserScript==
window.onkeydown = function (event) {
    if (event.keyCode === 18) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }
};
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/70209https://forums.opera.com/post/70209Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:51:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:31:13 GMT]]>Yeah, i experience this thing to. But i mostly use alt+enter to search in a new tab. But even if i train hard to release alt key before enter, this menu pops up either. Dear developers, please, set another key to open menu.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61477https://forums.opera.com/post/61477Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:31:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:25:08 GMT]]>@l33t4opera: Yes, I know. But Alt+D is the best and easy for me.
And I know a better way is return to Firefox also.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61462https://forums.opera.com/post/61462Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:25:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:34:49 GMT]]>Hi @neo-xix, if you want, then you can use one of the others default keyboard shortcuts for this function: Ctrl+L, Ctrl+E, or just F8 šŸ˜‰

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61406https://forums.opera.com/post/61406Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:34:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 02:23:28 GMT]]>Yes, this thing is really annoying.
I often use Alt+D (on windows) to focus the address bar.
But when I release the D key a bit early. The menu will pop out.
What a bad experience. And it is useless, because all of items in this menu have its own hot key.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/61393https://forums.opera.com/post/61393Sat, 13 Dec 2014 02:23:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:08:47 GMT]]>Iā€™m not sure if something recently changed, but I am now getting unwanted menu popups upon Alt-tabbing when I return to Opera. Can anything be done about this?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/54688https://forums.opera.com/post/54688Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:08:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:40:08 GMT]]>Do you think it will ever be possible? Is it worth downgrading to an earlier version of Opera?
I know that it doesn't pop up until after I release [Alt], but like I said, it still pops up on tumblr.

On this post in my reply, I tested to see what key combinations I could use with [Alt] so I tried [Alt] + [P] it opened up the settings and sent this page to the "Post Preview".

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/26036https://forums.opera.com/post/26036Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:40:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alt key opens menu on Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:41:59 GMT]]>Customising the keyboard is not possible yet in Opera 18.

In Opera 11.64 or 12.16 you cannot disable this behaviour of the Alt key either. Note that the menu does not popup until you release the key, so you can, for example, still use Alt Tab to cycle to other Windows applications without bringing up the menu.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/25932https://forums.opera.com/post/25932Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:41:59 GMT