1627242 - I think it would be very helpful if Firefox shows what is the shortkey of that "option" when they drag their cursor upon that option. Currently only handful of shortkeys are shown or exit.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Pranav bhattarai]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2020-04-03 18-56-35.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Steps to reproduce:

The users still don't have the power to change Firefox shortkeys.
But that doesn't mean, this idea is not important. I wonder why this idea is not applied fully.

When I drag my mouse to the "Add-ons" icon, Firefox shows me Ctrl + Shift + A shortkey.
Similarly, if I drag the mouse to the "Download" icon, Firefox shows me its Ctrl + Shift + Y shortkey.
And so on.

But this is extremely limited for some reason. Option like,
Show to Presentation Mode, Settings, Show Sidebars, Customize, etc are not shown.

For a vim user like me, who prefer "no mouse" to increase productivity, this is a real bummer. Not only for vim user, any user who don't want to use slow mouse options, but they also prefer keybindings aka shortkey.

And Firefox telling what shortkey is available for what options play a vital role.

Shortkeys are very. I wish I can redesign my own shortkey instead of built-in shortkey which I will probably remember. But this is not about that. That would be really cool to have, but this issue is not about that.

Hence, please show all shortkeys when the user puts the mouse over that option. It helps us in remembering the shortkey instead of doing Google search.

Actual results:

<>

Expected results:

Shortkey = Speed = Productivity = Progress = Satisfaction

Comment 1

[Pranav bhattarai]

Shortkeys are very. I wish I can redesign my own shortkey instead of built-in shortkey which I will probably remember.

...which I won't probably remember. (Typo)

Why in the name of God name, Firefox/Bugzilla doesn't let users edit the typos/mistake made while reporting the bug?!

Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Hi,

Not sure, but this seems to be a duplicate of: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57805
Further, I will move this over to a component so developers can take a look over it. If this is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 3

[Pranav bhattarai]

(In reply to Alin Ilea from comment #2)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Hi,

Not sure, but this seems to be a duplicate of: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57805
Further, I will move this over to a component so developers can take a look over it. If this is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for the report.

That duplicate Bugzilla report is what I expect my Firefox as I mentioned here in some lines.
But. This is not completely about that.

This report is more focused on "showing shortcuts in all available options" instead of "showing shortcuts in few options" when the user puts the cursor above that particular option.

Like in the above screenshot, I have kept my cursor above addon icon, it shows me what shortcut key available for it.
Similarly, I want to see shortcuts when I put my cursor above icons like Settings, Show Sidebars, etc IF IT EXIST.
The right question is, do they exist (i.e shortcuts) in the first place for the user to show?

If not, then I got nothing not say. I wish they had.