Customizable hotkeys

[alefith]

It would be great if there was a way to customize hotkeys.
Here's how I see it:
 * Have a about:hotkeys panel, with all actions listed, and already mapped shortcuts shown.
 * Whether these should be modifiable or not is up to the dev community, ideally they'd be.
 * When clicking on a hotkey field, ideally, there would be a capturing hotkey feature, or, before this, an AHK like syntax to define hotkeys (not as complex, something like: CTRL+H means this and MAJ+ALT+END means that...)

 * a restore to default button.
 * Done.

It can't be done with an extension because some function can't be accessed by extensions (I'm actually looking for a way to send tab to other device while browsing with TST.). Anyway, I believe this should boost productivity in a number of ways. You guys are devs, you know keyboards are faster than mice. 😛

edit: Corrected the typos, it's been bugging me for months now😅

[Rebel_Bell]

This is a really good point as it's difficult to track different issues across systems. User customisation of shortcuts is the obvious way to go for this issue. I have a similar problem with Yahoo mail which uses Ctrl+Enter to send. I've sent no end of emails by using Ctrl+something and not releasing the Ctrl key soon enough. Fortunately there is the ability to override that action, but when Yahoo updates it seems to often get reset to default, only to be found out when an email get sent unintentionally. Maybe some people use it all the time, but to me it doesn't make sense it have it default-on as a shortcut anyway, there's a send button that's easy enough and not prone to accidental sends, so I feel your pain!

[christinwhite]

Firefox is supurb browser and it's so customizable but this is a huge detraction point for me and the primary reason I'm going to keep trying different browsers. I really hope that this someday becomes a priority for developers, I can think of very few other mature, professional software applications I use that don't allow for this.

[DetFusco]

Honestly, if they're trying to regain market share from Chrome, this is a must-have feature. People (myself included) have been using Chrome for over a decade, and you can’t expect us to relearn shortcuts when muscle memory for said shortcuts is already established. It doesn’t make sense. Let's not reinvent the wheel. We need the option to customize.

[Age135]

2 years later and this is insane that its not an built in function of the app by now. for the love of god Mozilla... get on it.

[Horrible64]

Please add this!

For me, I desperately want to be able to change the function of the side buttons on a mouse. By default they are Forward/Back in a page's history, but I find on most mice it's too easy to activate by accident when grabbing the mouse. I know I can disable them in about:config , but I'd love to just be able to rebind them to a non-destructive action, like switching tabs.

[wahming]

08-12-2022 01:23 PM

Hey all,

Here with an exciting update…

Your idea has quickly received a great deal of votes (kudos) and support here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we are upgrading the status to “Trending idea.” This means it’s now one step closer to reaching our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey.

Please keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😃

-The Community Team

How many more years does this simple request have to trend before we get something done about it?

[pjhfy]

Please add the feature to customize/disable some of the browser's shortcuts. I need to disable the shortcut Ctrl+[

[greeny]

Firefox Team, please consider adding customizable hotkeys as a feature! Many users would appreciate the ability to tailor keyboard shortcuts to their preferences.

[unbashed]

I hope this one will get implemented at some point. Right now the only reliable option is to use the scripts injection, which is unsafe, inconvenient and is tremendously hard for non-programmers

[ebardie]

Sexy AI BS gets the funding; basic features, not so much.

[vinc]

Firefox shortcuts now clash with new MacOS sequioa features so I was looking where to adapt them, what a shock to find out that this popular open source product does not have the ability to customize ...

(specifically; going thu tabs clashes with macos window tiling, not both happen)

[Charlignon]

I would like that a lot as well !

Some options that I use a lot are not bound (eg. Synced Tabs panel), and I have plenty spare keys on my keyboard/mouse

[Jack282]

G'day I'd like to add my 2 cents.

It would be great if we can implement KDE's shortcuts system for Firefox users on KDE. I've just modified my copy/paste shortcuts because hitting <C-V>Esc all the time in Neovim causes a headache (inserts ^[) but Insert is less destructive, makes more sense in my brain that C-V/X/C, and uses a key that just sits there on my keyboard (I even use Home, End, PgUp, PgDn but never Insert).

KDE apps have a panel accessed with <C-Alt-,> that we can either simulate using panels that use the code behind the Bookmarks Manager or download popout, or we could even package Qt (if it isn't already) and the KDE libs into Firefox to be able to draw on directly. Integration with KDE would be a dream.

Probably a better way to do this on my end for now would be with XCompose, since that would work in video games too.

Cheers

[Joao]

PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE, MAKE IT HAPPEN

[rotorb]

This is a frequent frustration. Glad devs are paying attention - thank you!