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Firefox is adding support for custom keyboard shortcuts, requested by users since 2004 (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 1 month ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"I doubt people left Firefox because it didn’t have key binds," says one commenter. I almost did. It was only marginally less work to find a good way to stop ^W from accidentally closing all my firefox tabs than it would've been to switch to a different browser.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Back in the XUL days (pre Firefox 57) it was possible for an extension to muck with keyboard bindings. So only 90 versions later :)

I'm looking forward to being able to disable the ^q quit shortcut, at the very least.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe regular users of Firefox didn't leave because of it, but I'm sure a number of people who were trying out Firefox decided not to switch because of it

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I went to opera in like idk 2008? Then eventually opera turned into Chromium and removed all of that. Womp.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe these shortcuts will come to the Android app too! !remindme 20 years