Hotkeys in Firefox (60.0.1)?

[Shiwayari]

Hello,

I am trying to use ahk to remap some (keyboard) buttons (In particular Numpad w/o Numlock) systemwide. However, this does not seem to work at all when firefox is the active window?
I tried google and forum search etc. but could not find anything on this issue, only more specific and very old posts about formulars and similar. However, something as simple as

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a::
SendInput b
return

will not work for me if firefox is the active window. I.e. with the above script active, when I go to adress bar and press 'a', it will type in 'a', instead of 'b'. The script works everywhere else. (Curiously it does work with "buttons" F13 - F24 which i assigned to my mouse). I don't know the details of how windows and ahk handle incoming keypresses and what is different with firefox, but I suppose firefox somehow intercepts any signals from the keyboard, so maybe it is possible to switch priorities of ahk / firefox? Or is there any other, preferably 'non-workaroundy', way to properly use ahk with firefox?

Thanks for any help.

[Guest]

I am having the same issue. None of my hotstrings are working in Firefox. I am not sure when exactly it happened, either windows update or Firefox update, but it stopped working recently.

[gregster]

Probably Firefox is running with elevated rights on your computer. Try running your script as admin...

[robodesign]

I have this issue too....if I block the input for 300 milliseconds, it works.... But still...

Any ideas?....

Thank you.

[AHKStudent]

I have this issue too....if I block the input for 300 milliseconds, it works.... But still...

Any ideas?....

Thank you.

what version of firefox are you on?

[robodesign]

Version 65

[robodesign]

After doing more tests... This issue is only occurring on some websites.

In my case, the problem is on deviantart.com, but not on discord. Any ideas on this?

Best regards, Marius.

[gregster]

I would guess that javascript might be interfering, but then again I cannot reproduce your problem on deviantart.com (neither without scripts, nor after allowing all scripts).
Hotstrings and hotkeys seem to work... at least in the search boxes. Any specific edit box that is not working?

Edit: Comment boxes work for me, too.

[robodesign]

Not in edit boxes. Try to prevent escape or arrow keys, when skimming through the galleries of images.

Esc::Return

Left ::Return

[gregster]

Try to prevent escape or arrow keys, when skimming through the galleries of images.

You want to de-activate these? Yeah, this seems related to javascript (which seem to take precedence sometimes)- when you don't allow scripts, these keys aren't active anyway.
If you can identify the responsible script, you can probably selectively shut it down via a browser add-on, but I don't know how you could solve it with AHK alone...

[robodesign]

The solution should be with AHK only....

[gregster]

Actually, de-activating with return seems to work for me now - so I have no idea how to solve this. Sorry.

By any chance, do you use context-sensitive hotkey defintions for Firefox that might be wrong and don't fire (and let through the original function of the keys)?
(SetTitleMatchmode correct?)

[robodesign]

I don't use context sensitive hotkeys. And they do fire....

Anyways, thank you.