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Do Firefox addons/browser extensions have the ability to trigger keyboard shortcuts?
On Firefox, there used to be a button that enabled Picture in Picture video. But I used some Firefox CSS theme and now it isn't there anymore. Now, i could try making an extension that does picture in ...
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Clicking on "See More" in Facebook WITHOUT mouse on Firefox or Chrome [migrated]
I tried using Ctrl+F, input "See More", Esc, then Enter, but it does not work.
What other keyboard shortcut can I used to trigger "See More" in Facebook for long posts? An ...
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How to disable Firefox search when not typing on any input field? [duplicate]
I want to play https://vim-adventures.com/, but I can't use any key, as Firefox will automatically start searching for text, as if I press Ctrl + F. I know this is convenient for most case, but here I ...
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Is it possible to modify/remove devtoolsKeyset key bindings in Firefox?
I've been working on a locked-down version of Firefox and need to disable certain keyboard shortcuts. Clarification: I'm the employee locking it down for my employer for use by our customers on a ...
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How do I stop a website from overriding my keyboard shortcuts?
The DeepL website has recently overridden my keyboard shortcuts so I can no longer copy paste sentences in and out of the text input boxes.
This still works if the keyboard is set to the US default. ...
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Firefox: access a button that belongs to an extension using keyboard shortcut?
I have an extension that, when I click its icon in the Firefox toolbar, opens a pop-up menu with some buttons. I would like to assign a keyboard shortcut to one of these buttons. Is that possible?
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Firefox: quick and simple way to close current window and open new window?
In the Firefox webbrowser:
Is there a quick & simple way to close the current window and open a new window instead?
(Sidenote: For the purpose of this question, there is only 1 currently open ...
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How to change find bar "Whole Words" shortcut in Firefox
On macOS, Firefox uses the control key for each of the keyboard shortcuts in the "Find in Page…" bar. For example, Highlight All is currently toggled by Control-I, Match Case is Control-C, ...
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Change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox's "Pop-out video player"
Firefox's pop-out video player is great for watching videos in the background, but I keep accidentally closing it. I use a text editor that uses the Esc key a lot (i.e. like Vim) and sometimes when ...
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How do I map a keyboard shortcut with *more than two modifiers* to a FireFox extension?
I have a "hyper key" on my keyboard; which holds all of the modifiers (⌘⌥⌃⇧) at once; it's useful to map 'global' hotkeys that won't conflict with any (reasonable) application defaults or ...
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Firefox address bar: How to tab through history without hitting tab twice due to new three-dot button menu?
With the recent Firefox 113.0 release, there is a new three-dot button menu in the history search results of the Firefox address bar. How can I stop that button from taking focus when pressing the tab ...
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disable firefox's control+w
How can firefox's keyboard shortcut control+W, which closes a tab, be disabled? There's nothing in about:config under browser.tabs.
(When in a web session that is a virtual host's console, that's the ...
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Configure the key sequence "ctrl,ctrl,1" to change to the first tab
In Firefox, I want to change the "ctrl-1" keyboard shortcut (that brings up the first tab in the browse) to the key sequence "ctrl,ctrl,1", that is press "ctrl", then &...
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Ctrl + Shift + T starts "EXPLORER" task instead of reopening closed browser tab
I've done everything from here -> How can I determine which process owns a hotkey in Windows?
and it turns out "Explorer" is using the Ctrl+Shift+T key bind. When I've terminated the task ...
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How can I jump to Firefox's search field when browsing on github.com?
Firefox 111.0-1
OS: linux 6.2.6.arch1-1
If I am browsing on github.com and hit CTRL + K, using the browser's search will not work.
Hitting CTRL+K the first time opens up some spotlight-/albert-like ...
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How to remap Control and Cmd in Firefox for MacOS?
MacOS allows to assign a hotkey for copy/paste actions via System settings. However Firefox does not respect remapped application short-cuts in MacOS. I tried several external application to remap ...
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Reset save filename
After enabling Always ask you where to save files for downloading, how to reset filename when accidentally modified?
I tried:
usual undo shortcut (ctrl+z), no effect
right click (only has cut, copy, ...
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Hotkey to pin current tab in your browser
Or any other way of doing this via keyboard.
Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge
OS'es: Ubuntu, Windows 10, Windows 11, OSX
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How do I make the extension shortcut the priority in Firefox?
I want to assign an extension action to Alt + T but even though it's set properly, Firefox is still overriding it and showing its own mini menu instead of activating the extension action.
How do I ...
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How to add system-wide hotkeys which do not interfere with Firefox?
We have some operators which perform some tasks using Firefox.
There is an external program which reads of the data they need to enter, and links it to certain hotkeys. (e.g. if they need to enter an ...
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Make Firefox act like other browsers: keep AltGr as Alt for default shortcuts no matter the keyboard layout
I have realized this is happening in Windows 10 as well as Linux, so I'm posting here.
I need to use AltGr in Firefox mainly as shortcut with back and forward arrows — for previous and forward page/...
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Firefox not pasting with Ctrl-v inside textarea
I'm using Firefox (95.0.2) on a MacOS (Big Sur 11.6.2) and changed the Ui.key.generalAccessKey (to 17 for Ctrl) to use Ctrl instead of Command to support copy/paste a la windows (i.e. ctrl-c to copy, ...
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Clear cache for a site in different browsers
I need to test a site in different browsers. Clearing browser cache deletes cache for all sites.
How to clear or reset cache for a particular site in different browsers?
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Is it possible to make the F5 key always preform a hard refresh in browsers?
Are there browser configuration settings or other ways to make a single press of the F5 key preform a hard refresh of the currently loaded page? Ordinarily hard refresh is achieved via pressing Ctrl+...
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Firefox shortcut for opening a new tab near to the current tab
I use Mozilla Firefox 92.0. I am looking for a shortcut to open new tab just next to the current tab? By default it opens at last.
I did not find any thing in about:preferences of Firefox
I looked at ...
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Shortcut of File>Page Style>No Style in Firefox
I have a question. I would like to know what shortcut can I use for File>Page Style>No Style command in Mozilla Firefox, without using any addon. Thanks!
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Window keyboard shortcut to open firefox browser options page?
On mac it's conveniently labelled right in the menu: cmd + ,, is there a shortcut like this for windows? I can't find it on the official documentation.
Even the mac version isn't documented.
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Disable Alt + Left to navigate back in Firefox
In Firefox 85 the Alt+Left arrow shortcut causes it to navigate back in browsing history. It does this even when a text field is focused and typed in which is just too much of a bad design for me, to ...
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Handling conflicting addon keyboard shortcuts in Firefox
I currently have both the To Google Translate and Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-ons installed in Firefox. The Ctrl + . keyboard shortcut for Multi-Account Containers doesn't work for me, but ...
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How can I open the previous page in a new tab in Firefox?
If want to go back to the previous web page in Firefox, I can press Ctrl[ or click on the "back" button:
However, this opens the previous page in the current tab. How can I open the ...
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