When I press F1 key a litle longer (30 sec) the help page goes crazy.
It is not a question. I is a suggestion. Build a standard help dialog that goes with Firefox. That way you can reduce unnecessary traffic to the Help page.
Best regards George
URL of affected sites
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+Help?style_mode=inproduct
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Most keys on your keyboard are repeating keys. The same happens with a letter key. If you keep the letter key "a" depressed, it with continue to repeat the letter "a" until you release it. A quick, single tap on the F1 key is all that is required.
Other Issues: ~~red:You have installed plug-ins with known security issues. You should update them immediately.~~
Update Java: your ver. 1.6.0.15; current ver. 1.6.0.20 (important security update 04-15-2010) (Firefox 3.6 and above requires Java 1.6.0.10 and above; see: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Java-related+issues#Java_does_not_work_in_Firefox_3_6 ) (Windows users: Do the manual update; very easy.) See: Updating Java Do the update with Firefox closed.
You may need to Update Adobe Reader for Firefox: your ver. N/A; current ver. 9.3.2 See: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+Adobe+Reader+plugin+with+Firefox#Installing_and_updating_Adobe_Reader Check your version here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ You may be able to update from the Adobe Reader installed on your system instead of going to the Adobe site and downloading. Start > Program Files, find and click Adobe Reader to open, click Help, click Check for Updates. If you go to the Adobe site to download the current Adobe Reader: -use Firefox to download and SAVE to your hard drive (save to Desktop for easy access) -See the images at the bottom left of this post to see the steps to take on the Adobe site -exit Firefox (File > Exit) -check to see that Firefox is completely closed (Ctrl+Alt+Del, choose Task Manager, click Processes tab, if "firefox.exe" is on the list, right-click "firefox.exe" and choose End process, close the Task Manager window) -double-click on the Adobe Reader installer you just downloaded to install/update Adobe Reader
- NOTE: On Vista and Windows 7 you may need to run the plugin installer as Administrator by starting the installer via the right-click context menu if you do not get an UAC prompt to ask for permission to continue (i.e nothing seems to happen). See this: http://vistasupport.mvps.org/run_as_administrator.htm
- NOTE for IE: Firefox and most other browsers use a Plugin. IE uses an ActiveX version. To install/update the IE ActiveX version, same instructions as above, except use IE to download the ActiveX installer.
- Also see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Adobe_Reader ~~red:and~~ How do I edit options to add Adobe to the list of allowed sites
Firefox used to have an internal Help file, but when Firefox 3 was released a couple of years ago it was changed to the online version of Help.
See also http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2009/08/18/cats-love-firefox-support/
Bug 519137 – Remove keyboard shortcut F1 (Help)