Reviews for Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox
Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox by Peter Malecka, Mike Crittenden
98 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13873326, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Heat_X, 6 years agoIt's a shame there are so many low ratings from people that couldn't figure out how to use it. It works exactly as described, and does it perfectly. I used to use vimperator but now that quantum has killed it this is the next best thing.
Also the description says that it cannot override default firefox shortcuts, but it is kind of misleading, it totally can most of the time - Rated 5 out of 5by Nils Trieu, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14258476, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by darkconsole, 6 years agothe ability to run custom javascript within the page on a hotkey was a damn godsend, since all the bookmark toolbar plugins that used to let you do alt+whatever apparently can no longer execute bookmarklets that start with the javascript: prefix. a blessing in disguise because now i don't have to write these obtuse as hell double encoded javascript bookmarklets to do things like ninja videos out of their players - now i can do it with properly formatted scripting that is easy to update.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14168767, 6 years agoWorked like a charm for my needs (ctrl+1 and ctrl+9)
- Rated 5 out of 5by The Beard Below My Chin, 6 years agoVery good add-on. The fact you can use The Konami code as a hotkey is frikken brilliant. Another gem, I wished I discovered sooner.
@ Davin it does has scroll up/down RTFM. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12837810, 6 years agoVery good. Thanks!
Problem: Some form fields are not recognized as such.
So, if shortcuts are assigned to alpha-letters, or to cursor keys, the filed becomes unusable.
A stopgap measure would be to have a Button to enable/disable the extension.
An example: Try to comment on:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/trump-will-regret-changing-his-mind-about-qatar/
(unfortunately, you have to register first, free of course). - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12531918, 6 years agoHow about scroll down/scroll up/mouse click triggers?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13490118, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13380433, 7 years agoI need set "F1" key to run "inspector" in firefox ( default key is Ctrl+Shift+C ) Please help me to do it
- Rated 5 out of 5by bodwyn, 7 years agoI'm actually looking for an extension to disable ctrl+w, which Shortkeys doesn't do, but
Mike was very prompt, clear and helpful to respond to me, so full marks for service, and
Shortkeys dev team (probably Mike) has a new fan when I need its functionality. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13543417, 7 years agoI'm so glad this extension was ported to Firefox Quantum! It's a very useful tool when working on designing web apps! Thank you for your continued support, Peter Malecka. :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13509679, 7 years agoGreat! However, it took me some time to enter the keywords in small letters - and everything works fine for me!!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by jjmcgaffey, 7 years agoThank you. I've been using Dorando KeyConfig for ages (even when it stopped being officially supported, and I had to sneak it in to Firefox) - I _hate_ backspace taking me back a page any time a text field isn't in focus, and the Alt-arrow back and forward drives me nuts (a two-handed shortcut? Really? I know, there's an Alt key on the right too - I never use it). I was afraid I'd lose my fixes - Alt-z for back and Alt-x for forward - with version 57. Thank you so much for making this!
It is a little bit complicated, because the text fields for creating a shortcut will happily take Alt or Backspace and then ignore it because it's not the key (which is alt or backspace - no caps). I had to go round a couple times to get that set up right (the instructions on the right are very helpful). But now it works, yay! Saved my sanity. - Rated 5 out of 5by nico wijaya, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Whetsit Tuya, 7 years agoAcceptable alternative to Dorando Keyconfig in wake of FF v57.0
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review. The addon description has been updated. Go to Addons->Shortkeys->Options to configure key combos. - Rated 5 out of 5by Lee Peterson, 7 years agoF1 for Go Back and F2 for Go Forward have always seemed like logical keyboard shortcuts to me, and for some reason Firefox has never exposed those actions for the OS to hook onto. This add-on is pure genius, not just for my reasons, but for so many more. Great job. Saved me the time of digging into WebExtensions myself tonight.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chris Peterson, 8 years agoFor some reason, this add-on is hardcoded to only work in Firefox versions 50 or earlier:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/files/browse/570549/file/manifest.json#L24
Update: The problem was fixed. Thanks!