1551057 - Use Ctrl+J for downloads and Shift+Ctrl+Y as the alternative search shortcut on Linux

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement, P3)

Description

[gianni]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Shortcuts are different across different OSes

http://7is7.com/software/firefox/shortcuts.html#f7

In windows ctrl-j opens the download history, but not on linux

Actual results:

It focused the Select Search Bar.

In windows the search bar is focused using both
Ctrl+K
Ctrl+E

In linux the search bar is focused by both:
Ctrl+K
Ctrl+J

So I'd assign ctrl+k to the search bar, and assig ctrl+j to the download history in both OSes.

Expected results:

It shouls have opened the download file list history, like it happens on windows.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Bug 374189 has some context explaining the current situation, in particular bug 374189 comment 17 says we have Ctrl+J as an alternative search shortcut because emacs keybindings. I guess we could instead use Shift+Ctrl+Y as the alternative search shortcut and use Ctrl+J for downloads...

Comment 2

[Peter Kehl]

Mozilla,

please stop reserving so many available shortcuts. Ctrl+Shift+Y used to be available to extensions (on Linux).

Especially so across various meta key combinations (Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift).
For example, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yawas-web-and-pdf-highlighter needs four shortcuts, ending with letters Y, R, B or G (for colors Yellow, Red, Blue, Green). But Firefox doesn't leave almost any practical space:
Ctrl+Shift+Y is taken, Ctrl+Alt+R is taken....

Could Mozilla keep just one of Ctrl+Alt or Ctrl+Shift?

Comment 3

[gianni]

Why is this bug still unassigned? Can we do something about it? thanks

Comment 4

[gianni]

Why is this bug still unassigned? Can we do something about it? thanks

Comment 5

[Gingerbread Man]

Reporter, please stop messing with the bug report fields.

• Version should stay the version the report was filed for. As long as the report is open, it's assumed it's still applicable to the latest version. In case of uncertainty, a developer or QA team member may request confirmation.
• You're requesting a change in intended behavior. That makes this an enhancement not a defect.
• This is not 64-bit specific.

Comment 6

[lucasfbustamante]

FWIW, I just switched from Brave to Firefox on Linux, and it bugs me a lot that Ctrl+J does not open the "Downloads" window, as in all other browsers. This issue has been opened for 15 years. Can we please get a position, even if it's a "Won't Fix"?

Comment 7

[lucasfbustamante]

By "opened for 15 years" I refer to this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374189#c17