1395153 - Allow a keyboard shortcut to be created for activating a web-extension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1303384

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[Greg]

Attachment: shortcut-1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Install an extension


Actual results:

Appears to not be possible to create a keyboard shortcut that activates the extension.


Expected results:

Like is possible on Google Chrome, it would be awesome to be able to create a keyboard shortcut that activates (or opens the UI) of an extension. For example, say I install the uMatrix extension by Raymond Hill. Once installed, I would like to create a keyboard shortcut (e.g., Ctrl+Shift+D or Alt+D, etc) that when pressed will open the uMatrix UI. This is a built-in capability that is possible in Google Chrome extensions. It would be awesome if Firefox had this too when it completes its web-extension transition.

Comment 1

[Greg]

Attachment: shortcut-2.png

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

You can specify a command shortcut that calls the browser_action for an extension. Please see the Special Shortcuts on this page: 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/commands

eg: _execute_browser_action. I think that should cover your needs. If you are talking about the ability to alter commands then thats bug 1303384.