All Questions
Tagged with firefox keyboard-shortcuts
249
questions
-1
votes
0
answers
44
views
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 ...
- 99
1
vote
0
answers
19
views
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 ...
- 341
0
votes
0
answers
16
views
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 ...
- 2,131
1
vote
0
answers
44
views
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 ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
72
views
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. ...
- 187
2
votes
0
answers
47
views
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?
- 834
1
vote
2
answers
734
views
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 ...
- 261
1
vote
1
answer
121
views
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, ...
- 141
1
vote
1
answer
112
views
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 ...
- 309
1
vote
1
answer
71
views
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 ...
- 2,535
7
votes
1
answer
651
views
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 ...
- 279
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 2,521
0
votes
2
answers
421
views
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 &...
- 33
0
votes
1
answer
529
views
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 ...
1
vote
1
answer
144
views
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 ...
- 346
0
votes
1
answer
324
views
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 ...
- 339
1
vote
0
answers
42
views
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, ...
- 11
2
votes
2
answers
792
views
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
- 163
2
votes
1
answer
574
views
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 ...
- 685
2
votes
0
answers
163
views
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 ...
- 143
2
votes
1
answer
893
views
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/...
- 1,284
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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, ...
- 240
3
votes
1
answer
2k
views
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?
- 229
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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+...
- 1,133
16
votes
3
answers
11k
views
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 ...
- 1,033
0
votes
1
answer
741
views
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!
- 101
1
vote
1
answer
328
views
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.
- 143
4
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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 ...
- 670
2
votes
1
answer
259
views
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 ...
- 71
0
votes
2
answers
458
views
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 ...
- 271
0
votes
0
answers
588
views
Youtube responds super slow to keyboard shortcuts, but it responds fast to mouse commands
I just did a fresh install of Win10 on a new SSD. Everything is running fine, but Youtube, for some reason, when I use the keyboard to pause, raise the volume, skip forward or back, takes around 500/...
- 101
1
vote
4
answers
2k
views
How to create a shortcut to search Google Scholar from the address bar in Firefox?
Just want to create open-search queries to search instantly from the search bar for google scholar. This is easy with Brave and Chrome, using Open Search queries. This has been possible with FireFox ...
- 11
5
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Configure (disable) FireFox keyboard shortcuts
I use skhd to manage system-wide keyboard shortcuts, but occasionally one leaks through and gets picked up by FireFox instead.
How can I disable a keyboard shortcut in FF - specifically the Command-{...
- 631
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Enable smooth keyboard scrolling but disable smooth mouse scrolling in Firefox
I want the same smooth scrolling behavior as current Chrome/Edge(mium) versions: snappy touchpad scrolling without delay, but smooth and slower scrolling when using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
...
- 1,271
0
votes
1
answer
134
views
How to disable "command + / " in YouTube as a shortcut in macOS?
I'm using a Mac. Regardless of the browser I use, when I am in YouTube and press command + / then the website will pop a helper modal.
In my system I have set command + / as a shortcut for other ...
- 145
3
votes
1
answer
694
views
Delete button (del button) is broken in Firefox when sites are blocked from overriding keyboard shortcuts (i.e., permissions.default.shortcuts = 2)
The default value for permissions.default.shortcuts is 0, which allows webpages to override Firefox's normal response to keyboard shortcuts. For example, Ctrl-R will normally reload the page, but if ...
- 51
2
votes
2
answers
437
views
is there a way, in firefox, to take a screenshot of the current window, using only one keyboard shortcut
I am aware of the built-in firefox screenshots, but they require the use of the mouse and at least 3 clicks.
Is there any way on vanilla firefox or using extensions to take a screenshot, that gets ...
- 322
1
vote
1
answer
417
views
Can I change the command bindings back to control bindings on Firefox?
I have been a Linux user for years and just got a Mac. One thing that has been bugging me for the past couple of days is how every program seems to use command for shortcuts instead of Ctrl. ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
383
views
Why doesn't ENTER work in some Save-File dialogs?
tl;dr
In Save-File dialogs, keyboard input like Enter and ALT-S (to save) either won't work, requiring mouse input, or they're require a confusing 8-10 presses till they finally go through, oddly. ...
- 5,994
0
votes
1
answer
989
views
Setting the text input value of the Firefox developer console?
I am currently in the process of moving my web-dev work from classic IDEs to the web browser console. This involves frequent editing of existing source code, which right now means...
logging the ...
- 125
2
votes
1
answer
395
views
Firefox on MacOS: Customize keyboard shortcut for "go back"
Is there a way to change the keyboard shortcut for the back button? Because there is no menu item for this, the MacOS keyboard shortcuts cannot be used.
Instead of Cmd+← (boths hands needed) I want ...
- 245
1
vote
1
answer
318
views
How do I have ctrl-shift-enter expand to www.(whatever).org in Firefox address bar?
Not long ago, Firefox would support the following shortcuts in the address bar, supposing you had typed foo:
CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER : www.foo.org
SHIFT-ENTER : www.foo.net
CTRL-ENTER : www.foo.com
Only ...
- 7,043
14
votes
9
answers
22k
views
Is there a common browser shortcut for jumping to a website’s search bar?
I know Ctrl+L moves focus to the browser address bar, and I use it all the time across browsers. What would be useful though, on sites such as this one, Amazon, or even Google, is a shortcut which ...
- 503
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
Refresh more complete than with Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl-Shift-R
I have a html-page (1) which in turn is filled with another html-document (2) by a js-file (3). I use Firefox.
I have modified a href-attribute inside (2), but when I reload (1) with Ctrl-F5, the ...
- 33
0
votes
1
answer
240
views
Firefox in an "app mode"
I would like to have a configuration of firefox to fake an "app mode". More precisely, I would like to have no navbar and disable the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-L, Ctrl-Q, etc ...
I am running ...
- 101
5
votes
1
answer
5k
views
Hotkey to open Preferences in Firefox under Linux/Windows?
Is it possible to configure a hotkey/keyboard shortcut to open Preferences in Firefox Quantum under Linux/Windows?
As one who needs to use the settings relatively often it'd be really handy. Under ...
- 789
2
votes
1
answer
598
views
How change the number of seconds Firefox audio video player seek back/forward with keyboard?
When you open an audio/video file with Firefox you can seek forward/backward 15 seconds with right/left keys. Is there a way to change that number or maybe even tweak the keyboard shortcuts? Ideally I ...
- 449
0
votes
1
answer
224
views
Cycle through links on page and open a link
Is there a Firefox shortcut and/or combination of shortcuts to cycle through links on a page, then open a specific link ?
To do this now I use the shortcut : ' to open find then I search for the link ...
- 629
-1
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Firefox tab shifting like in Opera
In Opera there is a nice feature that keeps me hooked:
Shift+Tab will move to the last opened tab. Pressing Shift+Tab then subsequent tabs (Shift+Tab then Tab again) breaks out of the last used tab ...
- 129
0
votes
0
answers
99
views
How do I disable or change keyboard shortcut that starts Firefox Devtools?
I often copy paste from a terminal where I need use <C-C> instead of <C-c>. So when I'm copying and pasting between terminal and Firefox, I often end up using <C-C> in Firefox, which ...
- 101