03-10-2024 10:30 PM
I have used firefox since its inception, but left to chrome/brave for a while due to compatibility issues with a webapp I needed to use. I finally went to linux as my daily driver, and decided to switch back to FF to be more FOSS friendly. It is however, an instant non-starter. For some reason, all of the hotkeys on linux are wrong. It is part of a misguided effort to adopt the hotkeys of emacs, a completely unrelated text editor. Want to open downloads? ctrl-shift-y... Ctrl-j is nice and easy, but on linux it focuses the search bar, it is a duplicate of ctrl-k. I get that some people want to be able to avoid conflicts, but give us an option! or even better, let us provide our own key bindings, even if it is in the form of a config file. There is an issue about this on the tracker and it has been untouched for 15 years.
04-10-2024 01:30 AM
Very strange. I'm on Debian and Ctrl-J brings the downloads up no problem.
I'm with you on being able set our own keyboard shortcuts.
04-10-2024 08:02 AM - edited 04-10-2024 08:03 AM
I just assumed it was all linux distros. I am on arch. Perhaps it is KDE.
13-11-2025 01:45 PM
For me, on Debian 14 + KDE Plasma 6.5 (Wayland session):
Both CTRL + K and CTRL + J focus the search bar.
And CTRL + SHIFT + Y opens the downloads window, which the menu confirms that this is the shortcut for opening the downloads window.