Key bindings in Firefox; edit vs. sidebars!

[Art Alexion]

Neil Woolford wrote:

>IMHO this is not actually very helpful behaviour;  the interface is
>subtly modal in a way that many users will find difficult to handle.
>Most of us work at keyboards with backspace and cursor keys so don't
>*need* the Ctrl+B/H bindings to edit text.
>
>My question is how can I enforce the binding to the sidebars (given in
>the Firefox menu) even when the text editing cursor is live?
>  
>
Two follow-ups:

   1. One of the most useful (and I thought universal) Linux hotkeys is
      Ctrl+u for clearing a field.  In Ubuntu, however, it only seems to
      work in a few apps (easytag & *some* firefox fields).  Why not?
   2. I also have gotten used to using Shift+Ctrl+a to select a thread
      in Thunderbird & Mozilla Mail.  Why doesn't the hotkey combo work?
      (Ctrl+a does work for selecting all in a folder, though.)
      Conflict, maybe?



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