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Now if they would let you customize keyboard shortcuts, it would have been my default browser years ago.
Easy to fix with an extension. Shortkeys
I use qutebrowser for this reason. Keyboard first controls. All the workaround extensions for Firefox have limitations on about, config, and addon pages. I also had trouble with losing focus to Google docs and when a page is loading. Until Firefox offers full native control options, this was too brittle for me from a keyboard accessibility perspective.
I would love to use Firefox more though once this happens!
You can customize browser-internal shortcuts with a script in your profile dir.
For example this is my script
‹user profile›/chrome/removeshortcuts.uc.js
The script removes the shortcuts listed in the beginning and adds an alternate shortcut for screenshots to ctrl+s.
You can see all internashortcuts by opening a browser console and querying the shortcut elements (using regular javascript)
To complete this, probably with ff117 I had to fix the way I load my userchrome files, reminding me I should probably put them here too:
/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox.cfg
/usr/lib64/firefox/defaults/pref/autoconfig.js
How can you use anything that doesn't support Tree Style Tabs?
Or do you use Orion or something?
I’ll have to try out tree style tabs. I miss chrome’s tab groups sooo much
When you do, feel free to find the "cheat code" to disable the top tab bar, it makes it a whole lot less noisy to me at least.
Just tried it. This is great. NOW I agree Firefox is better in every way.
Welcome to the club!
And yes, it really makes a difference. And, there are even extra extensions for TST: I use a color tabs extenaion for it as welm as an extension that lets me export a tab tree as markdown for use in my notes or to batch "bookmark" them before closing them.
What do you mean?
about:preferences#search > Search Shortcuts
you can double click on the right next to the search engine to set any keyword (starting with @ or not).If that's not enough, you have been able to set any keywords for any bookmarks (with %s argument replacing) since at least 2006.
Is any of that getting deprecated?