<![CDATA[ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop]]>I've looked around the previous posts regarding disabling the disruptive issue of having the menu drop down when touching the ALT key, but there does not appear to be an official statement to either confirm or deny any active work on fixing the issue.

It seems to be a huge cause of frustration over the years and there does not appear to be an obvious solution. Can someone point me in the right direction to somehow disabling the drop down menu, whether it is an official method or an unofficial workaround?

I've tried both Opera and Opera GX, and the problem persists.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/47977/alt-key-triggering-disruptive-menu-dropRSS for NodeWed, 20 May 2026 22:16:43 GMTMon, 22 Mar 2021 06:30:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:28:28 GMT]]>Sorry to bring this post back from the dead a 2nd time, but I'm getting some unwanted results from this as well. I'll try my best to summarize:

Normally I use ctrl+scroll to zoom in and out on webpages, but on pages with built-in maps like Roll20 (virtual tabletop), it's not a great idea to use ctrl+scroll to for zooming, because if you accidentally move your mouse over any of the interface elements, then suddenly you're zooming in/out on the whole page. So I've gotten the habit of using alt+scroll for that.

So, I made the switch from Chrome to Opera GX a few months ago, and everything is great except for 2 problems, 1 is "dragging files between monitors opens sidebar items" which is a problem for another day, and the other is this. To this day, every Thursday night when I go to play D&D, I either have to remember to open another browser, or if I'm too lazy to, I have to suffer that menu dropping down every time I zoom in or out. It's not the only issue I have using Opera for Roll20, but the other issues are minor and easy to look past.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/294548https://forums.opera.com/post/294548Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:28:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:15:36 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Your suggestion of holding it down works and I had no idea about the default windows function which you even mentioned in the above posts, my apologies for not reading your comments properly, and thank you for the prompt response, I appreciate it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/283210https://forums.opera.com/post/283210Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:15:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:10:07 GMT]]>@theebus No. In Windows if you tap Alt by itself it is supposed to focus the menu bar for keyboard access. As Opera has no menu bar they chose to display the menu - that is reasonable. But if you press and hold Alt to press a combination like Alt-P there should be no menu. I'll have to message the developers again.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/283209https://forums.opera.com/post/283209Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:10:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:42:19 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Sorry if it's against the rules to reply to old posts like this but I am still having this problem, is there really no way to disable the "alt" key dropping down the left menu? I can confirm that when I press alt+r to bring up NVIDIA performance overlay, I also have this problem when I'm browsing opera, it is quite inconvenient.
If I do hit them both perfectly in sync then it doesn't happen but this isn't consistent and sometimes there is a slight lag in between pressing the keys which results in this inconvenience, is there no way to change the shortcut of this menu dropdown or disable it entirely?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/283208https://forums.opera.com/post/283208Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:42:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:23:42 GMT]]>@godsho First of Alt-D is actually Focus Address Field, so if you're already typing in it then it should do nothing. I'd recommend Ctrl-A (Select all) for what you actually wanted to do. But you did press Alt+key and not just tap Alt, so it shouldn't have displayed the menu even if it considered the combination meaningless. I'll have to see if I can duplicate the issue here; if I can I'll file an issue on the bug tracker about it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/246419https://forums.opera.com/post/246419Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:23:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:22:25 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Thanks for the reply. I understand that the ALT key is meant to trigger the menu function.

I'm experiencing an issue where I hit ALT+D for the address bar and it successfully highlights the text that I'm looking to replace, but if you typed something and decide to select the address bar again with ALT+D, it opens up the menu instead of highlighting the text in the address bar again. on occasion. It was just something I noticed when comparing to other browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, or even Edge. Perhaps the sensitivity is a bit high compared to other browsers?

I'm looking to just tone down how frequently the menu pops up when I press ALT shortcuts and I'm not sure how to make Opera imitate the behaviours of other browsers in terms of the menu pop up.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/246417https://forums.opera.com/post/246417Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:22:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ALT key triggering disruptive menu drop on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:08:35 GMT]]>@godsho Tapping the Alt key is supposed to activate the menu of the active program for keyboard access. If Opera is displaying the menu when it isn't focused or when you press Alt with another key, that would be an issue.

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