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#1 2005-05-29 22:54:21
- viniosity
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Modding firefox shortcuts [solved]
Is there any way to change the keyboard shortcuts on firefox? I'd like to use alt-t to create a new tab instead of ctrl-t. Like-wise I'm more comfortable using Alt over Ctrl for a lot of commands and so would like to do some switching around of stuff. I heard there was an extension that did this but I went looking through and couldn't find it.
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#2 2005-05-30 01:59:36
- phrakture
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Re: Modding firefox shortcuts [solved]
it's called keyconfig
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_extension:_Firefox
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#3 2005-05-30 02:09:56
- Vinny
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Re: Modding firefox shortcuts [solved]
To swap the alt and control keys:
Go to about:config and filter on 'ui.key'
Change 17 <--> 18
16=shift
17=control
18=alt
224=meta
if ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses is true then the menuAccessKey by itself will put focus on the menu-bar.
There is an extension called keyconfig that lets you *add*
custom keybindings but I don't think it can change default bindings
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#4 2005-05-30 02:55:35
- viniosity
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Re: Modding firefox shortcuts [solved]
To swap the alt and control keys:
Go to about:config and filter on 'ui.key'
Change 17 <--> 18
16=shift
17=control
18=alt
224=meta
if ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses is true then the menuAccessKey by itself will put focus on the menu-bar.There is an extension called keyconfig that lets you *add*
custom keybindings but I don't think it can change default bindings
That did the trick! I had to modify the general access one too otherwise the alt key was grabbing the tools menu. Awesome suggestions! I don't suppose there's any equivalent method for thunderbird?
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#5 2005-05-30 03:24:55
- Vinny
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Re: Modding firefox shortcuts [solved]
I don't use T-bird so I don't know that this works but it's worth a try.
Open ~/.mozilla/firefox/blahblah.default/prefs.js and copy
the lines which contain 'ui.key' into ~/.mozilla/thunderbird/blahblahblah/prefs.js.
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#6 2005-05-30 03:35:10
- viniosity
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Re: Modding firefox shortcuts [solved]
actually, I found an about:config editor for thunderbird too. Thanks!
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