Someone at @firefox thought that BLOCKING the [ENTER] key from confirming the 'SAVE' of a content is a good idea ... think again - its garbage/bullshit - bring it back before it backfires more ...

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[–] 10 points 3 months ago

Works on my machine. Is this about the file browser dialog? That depends on your OS or DE.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Those generally are there because someone has figured out a way to atack your computer. Like, get someome playing a Web game and slamming enter and then pop up a dialog right in the middle so that you inadvertently confirm doing something unpleasant to your computer. The secure setting is probably the right default for most users.

    https://superuser.com/questions/1023643/firefox-disable-delay-on-download-dialog-buttons

    Go to about:config (type into address bar) and set security.dialog_enable_delay setting to 0.

    Note: disabling this delay may in theory open you to some pretty non-standard security attacks described in this article (as Otiel pointed out), but I wouldn't lose sleep about it.

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    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1273640

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There is usually a time delay before the button is enabled. At least on Windows.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago

    @Simplicity I disabled the 'delay' years ago - even documented it here - vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/03 - right now - the [ENTER] key DOES NOT WORK AT ALL - no matter how many times You press it - its just blocked.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    @vermaden Oh, I am not alone! This broke in version 152 of @firefox, I believe.

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