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29.03.2007 - 20:25
GT
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Ever since I updated my Firefox browser a couple of days ago I haven't been able to use the 'Alt+S' function when posting...anybody else have this problem or know how to fix it? The version of Firefox is 2.0.0.3

EDIT: just tried posting when using Explorer and it worked, so it might just be Firefox
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31.03.2007 - 03:33
Raiden
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It's not a bug. I recently updated too, and it's just that in the new Firefox, Alt+S is reserved for opening the History menu. When you press Alt, you jump up to the File, Edit, etc menu. Pressing Alt+F brings the file menu down for you, and it just so happens that Alt+S makes the History menu come down. It's just an unfortunate coincidence.

Internet Explorer does the same thing with Alt. (Try Alt+A for Favourites for example). There's no menu that needs Alt+S though, so that's why it works with IE.

Can you put up with it for the new spell check feature?
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31.03.2007 - 10:35
GT
Coffee!!
Thanks...eventhough Alt+S doesn't open the History menu for me...I have Firefox in Danish so here it's Alt+I.

Haven't seen the spell check feature...is it a an extra feature you can install?
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01.04.2007 - 10:52
Raiden
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Ohh of course. Well you know what I mean anyway.

The spell check thing should've come with it. You just install Firefox, and from the second use onwards, it should happen. It works whenever you are typing something into a text box (like in an MS forum post).

You can also install dictionaries with it. I have the Australian dictionary installed on mine. Just visit mozilla's site and you can install the Dansk one - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
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01.04.2007 - 11:07
GT
Coffee!!
Thanks...I try it out ASAP
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18.04.2007 - 18:01
Raiden
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No problems. How did it go for you?
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18.04.2007 - 18:42
GT
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I uninstalled it again...never used it and got a little annoyed by it...but I bet many will find it a nice feature
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19.04.2007 - 06:36
Raiden
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Ahh ok. Yeah, I find it as a useful feature. If it's a long and complicated word that I haven't really seen or whatever, I don't have to copy it into MS Word to check it
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- Bruce Dickinson

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- Yuri Gagarin (while in orbit, 1961)
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