Keyboard shortcuts changed after update

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Mr.X
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Keyboard shortcuts changed after update

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Just updated from v45.x.x to v52.0.1 (Windows 7 x64) and it seems that Ctrl-L (insert a link) in an e-mail has changed to Ctrl-K?
I searched around but could not see any reference as to why this was changed, and the documentation still shows Ctrl-L as the shortcut for inserting a link.

What gives?
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Moving to Thunderbird Support.
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Post by morat »

Change Ctrl+L keyboard shortcut for hyperlinks to Ctrl+K
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1293048

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Re: Keyboard shortcuts changed after update

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It is also nicely cited in the release notes at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbi ... easenotes/
Mr.X
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Re: Keyboard shortcuts changed after update

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Gotcha. Thanks. I'm a newbie to these forums so thank you for your help. My searches turned up nothing, but now I know better where to look.
The documentation is still wrong, though.

Too bad it was changed. Lots of online software used the same shortcut (Ctrl-L), who would have thought that MS-Office compatibility would be a thing? ;-)
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Mr.X wrote:The documentation is still wrong, though.
Unfortunately that page is on the official Mozilla Support site and not something that we can update/correct.
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Why has this happened? Bugs me out....
Can I apply a patch to get it back to what it was?
I'm using Thunderbird, not Office...
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