1965729 - Offer a more direct alternative keyboard shortcut (F9) for toggling / collapsing the vertical tabs sidebar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Sidebar, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Fortin]

The new vertical tabs sidebar (which can be opened in addition to the traditional sidebar) in recent Firefox versions is great.

I only wish it was easier to toggle it on/off on the fly. Currently, there is a keyboard shortcut for it, Ctrl+Alt+Z (at least on the Linux version), but this is not documented in the shortcuts documentation page, and is also problematic in various ways:

• It requires two hands on the keyboard on some keyboard layouts (such as the Dvorak simplified keyboard layout, and its regional variants)

• It is uncommon compared to other apps. Typically, the F9 key is used in most apps out there to toggle the main sidebar on/off, so that's what I'd expect here (especially since the other sidebar's panes have dedicated shortcuts like Ctrl+B, Ctrl+H, etc.).

As the F9 key is not mentioned anywhere in the shortcuts documentation page, and Firefox does not seem to do anything when I press it, I suspect it would be free to be assigned as the primary (or secondary) shortcut for the "toggle/collapse the vertical tabs sidebar" action. For those whose keyboards have F keys, it would be much more convenient to press this single key like in other apps on Linux.

Comment 1

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! Thank you for submitting this issue. I will mark it as NEW in order to get our developers involved and take it into consideration for further releases.

Have a nice day!

Comment 2

[Nikki Sharpley (:nikkis) (she/her)]

Thanks for the suggestion! We are looking into it.