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)
252 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by malau, 17 days agoI want to disable ALT F,X which I often hit by mistake instead of ALT F,C.
However, it is impossible to disable even ALT F !
This extension has been ABANDONED for 5 years, so it's not surprising that it doesn't work. - Rated 1 out of 5by oralhealth, 17 days agowhy doesn't this work
[
{
"key": "Ctrl+Shift+N",
"label": "New Private Window",
"action": "newprivatewindow",
"sites": "",
"sitesArray": [
""
],
"activeInInputs": true,
"blacklist": false
},
{
"sites": "",
"sitesArray": [
""
]
}
] - Rated 3 out of 5by Tielessin, a month agoVery flimsy and frustrating to get to work. For example, it not working in the URL Bar, only working after a page is fully loaded and not working on certain pages like this addons marketplace and any internal web pages (like the new tab page or the addons manager). Most of the issues don't seem to be the fault of the dev tho. Make sure you carefully read the infos in the add-on page when you run into issues.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Xtro, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vidat, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Prajna Sariputra, 2 months agoWorks to disable the Ctrl+U shortcut, not for Ctrl+W though which still closes tabs and is what I really wanted to remap or disable.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Wehuty, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by hortond00, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Todd Ziocl, 3 months agoWas hoping to be able to remap private window from ctrl+shift+p to ctrl+shift+n but it doesn't work.
- Rated 1 out of 5by NightLight, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 阿夫, 6 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Kwauhn, 6 months agoWorks to change shortcuts, but is too rigid in the actions it is able to override. I only wanted this to change Ctrl+Tab (go to previous tab) to Alt+Q, but the "TABS: Previous Tab" setting does not respect Firefox's "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" setting. I have that option selected, but Alt+Q still goes by tab order instead of recent use order.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ﻻخقههسه, 7 months 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, 7 months agoNeed to remap Cmd+Shift+N to open new private window. This can't do it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15238260, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18177036, 9 months agoYes it has limitations but amazingly useful for things like search selected text shortcut
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14520466, 10 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, a year 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, a year 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, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Diefdeinf, a year 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, a year 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)