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Tagged with firefox keyboard-shortcuts
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How to forbid keyboard shortcut stealing by websites in Firefox
Many websites, especially everything involving rich text editing (this site is guilty as well), steal keyboard shortcuts normally used to control Firefox and make them do something else instead. It is ...
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Why does CTRL-click not open some links in a new tab?
Sometimes while browsing, I'll ctrl-click a link to open it in a new tab. However, instead of opening in a new tab, it gets clicked and browsed to in the current tab as if I had clicked it normally ...
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How do I prevent pages I visit from overriding selected Firefox shortcut keys?
In Firefox, how can I prevent pages from overriding Firefox built-in keyboard shortcuts through Javascript on a per-key basis? Preferably on a per-site basis, too? The most frustrating override is the ...
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Keyboard shortcut to detach a tab in Firefox (move tab to new window)
In Firefox, I can move a tab to a new window by either dragging the tab out of the window, or right-clicking the "move to New window" option from the context menu. Is there a shortcut key to ...
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Keyboard shortcut to quickly jump to the URL address field in Firefox
In Firefox I very often want to quickly enter a new URL in the address field. Therefore it would be very nice to be able to quickly jump to the URL address field with a keyboard shortcut! Today I must ...
James Burton
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Flash overrides Firefox keyboard shortcuts -- how to turn that off?
I often cycle through my Firefox tabs using Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. But whenever it reaches a tab that is running a Flash (or similar) plugin, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab won't work anymore, ...
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Firefox keyboard shortcut to switch search engines in search bar
I would like to know if there is a keyboard shortcut for switching the search engine in the search bar in Firefox. The current way to do is clicking on the down arrow beside the icon, but I am looking ...
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How can I duplicate a Firefox tab including the history with a keyboard shortcut?
Problem
I want to do as much as possible with keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. One operation I still can't do with a keyboard shortcut is duplicating a tab while keeping the history.
What I have ...
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Can't type Unicode because of keyboard shortcuts
I’m trying to type some Unicode characters that contain letters. I am using Windows 7 but the issue also appears in Windows 8. An example is 🎻 (U+1F3BB). I can’t type it though because Firefox and ...
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How to disable Ctrl+Q shortcut in Firefox on Linux
Since Firefox 57 there is no way to disable Ctrl+Q shortcut by plugin on Linux (see this bug). All workarounds I've found are based on setting the global Ctrl+Q shortcut to "steal" it from Firefox. ...
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Firefox shortcut to open a particular account container
Firefox has multi-account containers that allow you to use the same website with several accounts, without having to use a different browser:
Problem: I always open tabs with CTRL-t because clicking ...
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How to change Mozilla Firefox quit shortcut?
I'm using Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu(version - 39.0)
I want to change the quit short-cut which is currently Ctrl+Q.. To some other keys, because sometime while closing tabs with Ctrl+W., I ...
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Can I change the keyboard shortcuts for tab switching in Firefox?
How do I reassign the keyboard shortcuts for Firefox? I want to use ctrl+right/left to switch tabs. Is there a plugin for this, if Firefox doesn’t natively support this?
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Firefox: don't allow websites to override the / (slash) key
Some websites override the behavior of the '/' key in Firefox. Normally this opens the incremental search toolbar at the bottom of the page. But on some websites it places the cursor in a search box ...
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How can I disable the Backspace button's "Go Back" functionality in Firefox?
I am editing a lot of data in a web application using Firefox, and occasionally I hit the backspace key without focusing on a field, and FireFox goes back one page, erasing all the data I entered.
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