Firefox: change/disable default keyboard shortcut configuration

I have installed the Keyconfig add-on and configured it to toggle Offline Mode on Firefox, whenever I press Ctrl + Shift + O. It worked fine on previous versions of Firefox (before version 28.0).

However, now, when I have the Developer Tools pane open, pressing Ctrl + Shift + O causes the pane to switch to the Toolbox Options tab and consequently my 'toggle offline' option does not get triggered. (This happens only when the keyboard is 'focused' on the Developer Tools pane; if I'm actually working on a web page (i.e. some web page element is in focus), Ctrl + Shift + O always works regardless of whether the Developer Tools pane is open or not.)

I don't think a plugin or add-on would help in this regard, because the Ctrl + Shift + O shortcut assignment seems to be part of Firefox's Developer Tools pane itself. (After all, Keyconfig, via which I customized that shortcut, is also an add-on!)

As such, I'm looking for a possible way of altering the configurations of the Developer Tools toolbox (or Firefox itself, for that matter) in order to regain control of my keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O. (Well, I know it would be easier to change my shortcut to a different one, but I'm so accustomed to pressing Ctrl + Shift + O whenever required, that I cannot get rid of it now. :) ) I have been looking up the issue on the web for quite a long time, but still could not arrive at a satisfactory solution.

Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated.

asked Oct 6 '14 at 16:52

Janaka Bandara

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I have installed the Keyconfig add-on and configured it to toggle Offline Mode on Firefox, whenever I press Ctrl + Shift + O. It worked fine on previous versions of Firefox (before version 28.0).

Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated.

asked Oct 6 '14 at 16:52

Janaka Bandara

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I have installed the Keyconfig add-on and configured it to toggle Offline Mode on Firefox, whenever I press Ctrl + Shift + O. It worked fine on previous versions of Firefox (before version 28.0).

Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated.

asked Oct 6 '14 at 16:52

Janaka Bandara

166112

I have installed the Keyconfig add-on and configured it to toggle Offline Mode on Firefox, whenever I press Ctrl + Shift + O. It worked fine on previous versions of Firefox (before version 28.0).

Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated.

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asked Oct 6 '14 at 16:52

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asked Oct 6 '14 at 16:52

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asked Oct 6 '14 at 16:52

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Extensions you can use with Firefox Quantum: Saka Key, Shortkeys

However any extension seems to be limited and does not work in various situations:

privileged pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/

new tab page,

internal pages such as about:config,about:newtab,about:addons

outside of the webpage such as in the url bar/ search bar

before the page has finished loading

So from time-to-time your keyboard shortcuts will stop working, and you might run a totally different command that does something bad. Thanks Mozilla.

Credit: the list of limitations was gathered from the project pages of the two extensions.

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

1

Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:49

@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys?

– AdamS
Aug 15 '18 at 16:45

1

Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 16 '18 at 3:50

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Time to refresh the answer.
The official support page now is good enough and also points to a new extension to customize kyeboard shortcuts called Saka that's experimental but kind of official and works great for me (Firefox 60 developer edition / Ubuntu Linux)

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

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1

Thanks - I tried out Saka right after I upgraded to 60, but unfortunately it had the same problem that I had with Keyconfig, i.e. not being able to intercept commands while devtools is open. But worse, Saka didn't offer an option to bind keystrokes to custom scripts (like Keyconfig did - at least back then).

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:39

add a comment |

actually the Customizable Shortcuts Extension is able to change firefox shortcuts (and potentially show conflicts); you should give it a try.

However i'm still looking for a extension-less solution and the ability to totally disable a shortcuts...

Edit

As @louis noted, the customizable-shortcuts add-on has been discontinued (around 2016/2017).
The sames features are now found in the shortkeys addon (GitHub).

edited Feb 5 at 21:58

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

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Thanks. I just tried it, but it seems that the extension is picking up the shortcuts set on Keyconfig as well; so it doesn't seem to be able to disable/change just one of the shortcuts. I'll play around with it a bit more and see, though.

– Janaka Bandara
Mar 27 '15 at 4:05

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Extension now was deleted((.

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Extensions you can use with Firefox Quantum: Saka Key, Shortkeys

However any extension seems to be limited and does not work in various situations:

privileged pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/

new tab page,

internal pages such as about:config,about:newtab,about:addons

outside of the webpage such as in the url bar/ search bar

before the page has finished loading

So from time-to-time your keyboard shortcuts will stop working, and you might run a totally different command that does something bad. Thanks Mozilla.

Credit: the list of limitations was gathered from the project pages of the two extensions.

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

1

Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:49

@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys?

– AdamS
Aug 15 '18 at 16:45

1

Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 16 '18 at 3:50

add a comment |

Extensions you can use with Firefox Quantum: Saka Key, Shortkeys

However any extension seems to be limited and does not work in various situations:

privileged pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/

new tab page,

internal pages such as about:config,about:newtab,about:addons

outside of the webpage such as in the url bar/ search bar

before the page has finished loading

So from time-to-time your keyboard shortcuts will stop working, and you might run a totally different command that does something bad. Thanks Mozilla.

Credit: the list of limitations was gathered from the project pages of the two extensions.

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

1

Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:49

@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys?

– AdamS
Aug 15 '18 at 16:45

1

Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 16 '18 at 3:50

add a comment |

Extensions you can use with Firefox Quantum: Saka Key, Shortkeys

However any extension seems to be limited and does not work in various situations:

privileged pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/

new tab page,

internal pages such as about:config,about:newtab,about:addons

outside of the webpage such as in the url bar/ search bar

before the page has finished loading

So from time-to-time your keyboard shortcuts will stop working, and you might run a totally different command that does something bad. Thanks Mozilla.

Credit: the list of limitations was gathered from the project pages of the two extensions.

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

Extensions you can use with Firefox Quantum: Saka Key, Shortkeys

However any extension seems to be limited and does not work in various situations:

privileged pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/

new tab page,

internal pages such as about:config,about:newtab,about:addons

outside of the webpage such as in the url bar/ search bar

before the page has finished loading

So from time-to-time your keyboard shortcuts will stop working, and you might run a totally different command that does something bad. Thanks Mozilla.

Credit: the list of limitations was gathered from the project pages of the two extensions.

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

answered Aug 2 '18 at 10:01

AdamS

1717

1

Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:49

@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys?

– AdamS
Aug 15 '18 at 16:45

1

Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 16 '18 at 3:50

add a comment |

1

Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:49

@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys?

– AdamS
Aug 15 '18 at 16:45

1

Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 16 '18 at 3:50

Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:49

@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys?

– AdamS
Aug 15 '18 at 16:45

Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time.

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 16 '18 at 3:50

add a comment |

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

1

Thanks - I tried out Saka right after I upgraded to 60, but unfortunately it had the same problem that I had with Keyconfig, i.e. not being able to intercept commands while devtools is open. But worse, Saka didn't offer an option to bind keystrokes to custom scripts (like Keyconfig did - at least back then).

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:39

add a comment |

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

1

Thanks - I tried out Saka right after I upgraded to 60, but unfortunately it had the same problem that I had with Keyconfig, i.e. not being able to intercept commands while devtools is open. But worse, Saka didn't offer an option to bind keystrokes to custom scripts (like Keyconfig did - at least back then).

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:39

add a comment |

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

answered Mar 22 '18 at 11:47

Daniele Dellafiore

1113

1

Thanks - I tried out Saka right after I upgraded to 60, but unfortunately it had the same problem that I had with Keyconfig, i.e. not being able to intercept commands while devtools is open. But worse, Saka didn't offer an option to bind keystrokes to custom scripts (like Keyconfig did - at least back then).

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:39

add a comment |

1

Thanks - I tried out Saka right after I upgraded to 60, but unfortunately it had the same problem that I had with Keyconfig, i.e. not being able to intercept commands while devtools is open. But worse, Saka didn't offer an option to bind keystrokes to custom scripts (like Keyconfig did - at least back then).

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:39

Thanks - I tried out Saka right after I upgraded to 60, but unfortunately it had the same problem that I had with Keyconfig, i.e. not being able to intercept commands while devtools is open. But worse, Saka didn't offer an option to bind keystrokes to custom scripts (like Keyconfig did - at least back then).

– Janaka Bandara
Aug 12 '18 at 2:39

add a comment |

actually the Customizable Shortcuts Extension is able to change firefox shortcuts (and potentially show conflicts); you should give it a try.

However i'm still looking for a extension-less solution and the ability to totally disable a shortcuts...

Edit

As @louis noted, the customizable-shortcuts add-on has been discontinued (around 2016/2017).
The sames features are now found in the shortkeys addon (GitHub).

edited Feb 5 at 21:58

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

Thanks. I just tried it, but it seems that the extension is picking up the shortcuts set on Keyconfig as well; so it doesn't seem to be able to disable/change just one of the shortcuts. I'll play around with it a bit more and see, though.

– Janaka Bandara
Mar 27 '15 at 4:05

2

Extension now was deleted((.

– Саша Черных
Feb 15 '17 at 16:48

add a comment |

actually the Customizable Shortcuts Extension is able to change firefox shortcuts (and potentially show conflicts); you should give it a try.

However i'm still looking for a extension-less solution and the ability to totally disable a shortcuts...

Edit

As @louis noted, the customizable-shortcuts add-on has been discontinued (around 2016/2017).
The sames features are now found in the shortkeys addon (GitHub).

edited Feb 5 at 21:58

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

Thanks. I just tried it, but it seems that the extension is picking up the shortcuts set on Keyconfig as well; so it doesn't seem to be able to disable/change just one of the shortcuts. I'll play around with it a bit more and see, though.

– Janaka Bandara
Mar 27 '15 at 4:05

2

Extension now was deleted((.

– Саша Черных
Feb 15 '17 at 16:48

add a comment |

actually the Customizable Shortcuts Extension is able to change firefox shortcuts (and potentially show conflicts); you should give it a try.

However i'm still looking for a extension-less solution and the ability to totally disable a shortcuts...

Edit

As @louis noted, the customizable-shortcuts add-on has been discontinued (around 2016/2017).
The sames features are now found in the shortkeys addon (GitHub).

edited Feb 5 at 21:58

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

actually the Customizable Shortcuts Extension is able to change firefox shortcuts (and potentially show conflicts); you should give it a try.

However i'm still looking for a extension-less solution and the ability to totally disable a shortcuts...

Edit

As @louis noted, the customizable-shortcuts add-on has been discontinued (around 2016/2017).
The sames features are now found in the shortkeys addon (GitHub).

edited Feb 5 at 21:58

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

edited Feb 5 at 21:58

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:39

bufh

27626

Thanks. I just tried it, but it seems that the extension is picking up the shortcuts set on Keyconfig as well; so it doesn't seem to be able to disable/change just one of the shortcuts. I'll play around with it a bit more and see, though.

– Janaka Bandara
Mar 27 '15 at 4:05

2

Extension now was deleted((.

– Саша Черных
Feb 15 '17 at 16:48

add a comment |

Thanks. I just tried it, but it seems that the extension is picking up the shortcuts set on Keyconfig as well; so it doesn't seem to be able to disable/change just one of the shortcuts. I'll play around with it a bit more and see, though.

– Janaka Bandara
Mar 27 '15 at 4:05

2

Extension now was deleted((.

– Саша Черных
Feb 15 '17 at 16:48

Thanks. I just tried it, but it seems that the extension is picking up the shortcuts set on Keyconfig as well; so it doesn't seem to be able to disable/change just one of the shortcuts. I'll play around with it a bit more and see, though.

– Janaka Bandara
Mar 27 '15 at 4:05

Extension now was deleted((.

– Саша Черных
Feb 15 '17 at 16:48

add a comment |

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