Reviews for Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox
Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox by Peter Malecka, Mike Crittenden
Review by eriador
Rated 4 out of 5
by eriador, 8 years agoI'll rate again later, I haven't tried it yet as it says it's "not compatible with Firefox 55.0.2" so I'll have to wait for FF 57. I need it because the KeyBinder addon I was using won't be upgraded to WebExtensions.
Quick question: can I use it to assign the function keys to the downloads window and to the bookmarks sidebar, so that I can open them quickly?
EDIT: I'm not a coder so i can't submit pull requests to your github, and the issues section seems disabled. Since this is a FF-specific request, I cannot open an issue for the original chrome-shortkeys either...
Quick question: can I use it to assign the function keys to the downloads window and to the bookmarks sidebar, so that I can open them quickly?
EDIT: I'm not a coder so i can't submit pull requests to your github, and the issues section seems disabled. Since this is a FF-specific request, I cannot open an issue for the original chrome-shortkeys either...
Developer response
posted 8 years agoEDIT: Issues now enabled on Github. I looked into the current API for webextension on FF, and the API for opening the Downloads window/bookmark panel. Sorry
Hi there,
there's no need to wait for FF57, this will become compatibile with earlier version of FF (47-*) with the new version of the addon. It's already submmitted and awaiting review from AMO.
Bookmarks window and Downloads window is not currently supported. Feel free to submit a PR or open an issue on github: https://github.com/pmalecka/chrome-shortkeys
Currently the following actions are supported:
- Run custom JS
- Do nothing (for disabling a Chrome shortcut you don't like)
- Open a bookmark or bookmarklet
- Scroll up/down/left/right by a little or a lot
- Scroll to the top or bottom of the page
- Go back or forward in history
- Jump to existing tab by URL
- Open new tab with URL
- Switch to the previous/next/first/last tab
- Create a new tab or close the current tab
- Clone the current tab
- Close all (unpinned) tabs except for current tab
- Reload the page
- Copy the current URL
- Pin/Unpin the current tab
- Move the current tab left or right
- Zoom in/out/reset
- Blacklist or whitelist specific shortcuts on specific sites
- Clear downloads (page and bar)
- Click button and switch to next tab (for Tribal Wars players)
Hi there,
there's no need to wait for FF57, this will become compatibile with earlier version of FF (47-*) with the new version of the addon. It's already submmitted and awaiting review from AMO.
Bookmarks window and Downloads window is not currently supported. Feel free to submit a PR or open an issue on github: https://github.com/pmalecka/chrome-shortkeys
Currently the following actions are supported:
- Run custom JS
- Do nothing (for disabling a Chrome shortcut you don't like)
- Open a bookmark or bookmarklet
- Scroll up/down/left/right by a little or a lot
- Scroll to the top or bottom of the page
- Go back or forward in history
- Jump to existing tab by URL
- Open new tab with URL
- Switch to the previous/next/first/last tab
- Create a new tab or close the current tab
- Clone the current tab
- Close all (unpinned) tabs except for current tab
- Reload the page
- Copy the current URL
- Pin/Unpin the current tab
- Move the current tab left or right
- Zoom in/out/reset
- Blacklist or whitelist specific shortcuts on specific sites
- Clear downloads (page and bar)
- Click button and switch to next tab (for Tribal Wars players)
243 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ﻻخقههسه, 7 days agodamn good job, too bad mozilla overwrote and is hogging so many industry standards, like ctrl+k and ctrl+j, have beeen duplicate tab and open downloads, for over a decade!! WTF?!?! F mozilla
- Rated 1 out of 5by atom, 12 days agoNeed to remap Cmd+Shift+N to open new private window. This can't do it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15238260, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18177036, 2 months agoYes it has limitations but amazingly useful for things like search selected text shortcut
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14520466, 4 months agoDoesn't work. Tried to disable the tab key on gmail with no success, and even on a much simpler html page, the tabs key is still working as normal
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18709296, 4 months agoThe extension doesn't work after I have updated Windows from 7 to 10 (22H2). Firefox 128.5.0 esr.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Molly S, 5 months agoI used to use the backspace key to actually go back to the previous page, like all the time and this extension is letting me do that again, and it's made me so happy. Yes, I'm using it for literally only one thing. but that one thing makes me over the moon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by floriank, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Diefdeinf, 7 months agoNo matter what page I go to it says the toolbar icon is greyed out and can't be opened. Useless
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16457246, 7 months agoUnfortunately, when it eats default keybinds, it also hides them from other apps, and that limits its utility (though you can instead use them to trigger another keyboard shortcut, that only works with shortcuts internal to the extension. You can't use it to send keypresses)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18349586, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Hannes Leonhartsberger, 8 months agoIt's a really good add-on which provides shortcut functionality which firefox normally doesn't have. The only criticism I have is that the shortcut input field doesn't ignore whitespace.
- Rated 3 out of 5by lee terry, 8 months agoSadly it does not disable F11, even if you set it to do nothing when that key is pressed (it must be 1 of the ones it can not change) a list of all the keys it can not change would have been nice (and saved time). Thus the reason my review is 3 stars not 1 and why I will be removing this now (its useless for me if it cant do that).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Petersson, 9 months agoWorking great for me on my desktop and my laptop since several years. Only problem I have recently noticed is that it works too well on Reddit. When I try to type in a comment or post something the shortcuts are still active. With every "o" I type I go back to the previous page ;) Is there a possibility to setup exceptions for specific websites?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Srivaths P, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18441128, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lolbopoh, a year agoWorks perfectly for me, the "Run Javascript" option is just what I needed.
I didn't need to remap an existing browser hotkey for my own use yet, but remapping at least some of those works after restarting the browser.