Re: FF 5. 0 and user interface

My bloviated meandering follows what Chris Ilias graced us with on 
8/21/2011 11:35 AM:
> On 11-08-20 2:28 PM, Sailfish wrote:
>> I wonder if it would be helpful to enable the F1 key to bring up the
>> Firefox Help page much like Windows does?
> 
> It did, but we had too many instances of people mistakenly opening 
> Firefox Help, and asking why Firefox was apparently opening the page for 
> no reason. The bounce rate via F1 was 98.2%.
> 
> That and their cats would hit F1. :)
> http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2009/08/18/cats-love-firefox-support/
> 
Therein may explain the high bounce rate :) Too funny!

> So the F1 shortcut was removed in Firefox.
> Side-note: The change was checked in to Firefox 4 in November of 2009, 
> but it didn't get to users until March of this year when Firefox 4 was 
> released. That's almost a year and a half.

Okay, thanks.

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