Allow to avoid opening menu when pressing ALT key

jas12

jas12

This issue happens in many other modern webapps too. Opera Team, please give the users an option to re-map or disable this key. The "Alt" key opening the Context Menu from top-left is very annoying and hinders with custom hotkeys of other web-apps.

Our entire company and all our clients have shifted to other browsers just because of this issue.

The "Open main menu" in "Keyboard shortcuts" already provides a shortcut key to access this Menu. There is no need to map a single-click "Alt" key to this Menu.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

As a workaround, see https://forums.opera.com/topic/61278/can-you-turn-off-the-help-tab. That method might work for the Alt key too. Didn't test though.

jas12

jas12 @burnout426

@burnout426 - i already tried it. It didnt work for "Alt". Opera should give an option to disable the shortcut keys for such things which people almost never use.

In the last 5+ yrs i have never heard of anyone using "Alt" Menu or "F1" Help of Opera. I am repeating (and requesting) this again, its high time Opera should remove these hotkeys (shortcut keys).

Its more of a nuisance than a useful feature.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @jas12

operanoaltnof1.ahk:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

; Disable F1 key only when Opera is the active window
#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe opera.exe")
F1::return
Alt::return
#HotIf

That works for me on Windows 11 to block alt and F1 only in Opera. Tested with both Opera and Opera GX.

Edit: Never mind. It doesn't work for alt. Had to take focus off the address field after startup to really test.

jas12

jas12 @burnout426

@burnout426 -
Yes. Thats right. But we have our own AHK hotkey mappings for many modern web-apps, like example, if we press a certain key on keyboard, our AHK script fires "Alt+T", "Alt+G" etc.

And these "Alt" based shortcuts are already set in websites/apps, hence we cannot change them. Hence we have created customized AHK key-mappings (based on our client preferences) which send these "Alt" shortcuts.

So even after we block Alt/F1 using your above script, the "Alt Menu" and "F1" still gets triggered when our AHK script
sends "Alt+T", "Alt+G" etc.

jas12

jas12 @burnout426

@burnout426 - This issue was not happening for so many years, but after an update in 2023, this issue started happening.

Keyboard shortcuts in modern web-apps are working fine in all other Browsers.

Requesting Opera team to please analyze and solve this annoying issue.