Reviews for Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox
Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox by Peter Malecka, Mike Crittenden
Review by Ben
Rated 1 out of 5
by Ben, 7 years agoThe only reason I installed this extension was in order to disable built-in Firefox shortcuts, which is a feature noted in several places. There is even a "Do Nothing" action to take for a shortcut key designed for this purpose. But it doesn't work; after a "Do Nothing" shortcut key is defined, the key still does its original built-in action. There are bug reports in Github for CTRL-J and CTRL-Q, I wanted to disable CTRL-W...but the answer is "that's not supported by the new Firefox API". Well then, maybe you should remove the feature!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThis is some uncharted teritory for us: from what I can tell right now - the disable feture works when in a context of a webpage (but not when a search bar or url bar are focused), but some shortcuts like ctrl+w do not seem to follow this logic and cannot be blocked. Sorry about that, maybe we can discuss this with Mozilla.
243 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ﻻخقههسه, 8 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, 14 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.