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New Web Developer Tools interfere with my add-on

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whatagem123
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I use the add-on Menu Editor & have hidden the History & certain Tools. To access Menu Editor I simply press ctrl + shift + S Today however, a weird subscreen appeared at bottom of my browser. I figured out that under Tools there is an option for Web Developer (Debugger) that requires the same combination of keys to open. Now I cannot open Menu Editor at all. I tried to run in Safe Mode and could not get it to run in Safe Mode. I cannot access my add-ons at all because that is one button I have hidden.

How do I fix this? I don't care about Web Developer, don't know how to use it & most likely never will. I just want things to go back to the way they were before everyone starting messing around with firefox.

I use the add-on Menu Editor & have hidden the History & certain Tools. To access Menu Editor I simply press ctrl + shift + S Today however, a weird subscreen appeared at bottom of my browser. I figured out that under Tools there is an option for Web Developer (Debugger) that requires the same combination of keys to open. Now I cannot open Menu Editor at all. I tried to run in Safe Mode and could not get it to run in Safe Mode. I cannot access my add-ons at all because that is one button I have hidden. How do I fix this? I don't care about Web Developer, don't know how to use it & most likely never will. I just want things to go back to the way they were before everyone starting messing around with firefox.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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You might be able to switch one of them using the keyconfig extension from here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994

(Not helpful to you, but the NoScript extension also uses Ctrl+Shift +s and somehow it overrides the built-in debugger shortcut.)

cor-el
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Note that things may change because in future Firefox versions those developer tool keys entries appear to have moved to a different DOM location (keyset#devtoolsKeyset) and are no longer under keyset#mainKeyset.