257241 - Ability to customize shortcut keys via UI (mouse and keyboard)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57805

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Thierry Moisan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040815 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040815 Firefox/0.9.1+

I would be great we could edit fast keys (like Ctrl-T) to what we want (back
page, next page, reload, etc...) and even put it on mouse like midlle button
mouse and extra buttons (like for my microsoft IntelliMouse) that already have
strange functions in firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is possible by editing source files (in
chrome\en-US.jar\locale\en-US\browser\browser.dtd) but there is no UI for it.

I don't think this has any chance of being implemented but I'll confirm the RFE
as I can't find any dupes.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 57805 is the same bug for Seamonkey.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 261220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 269521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** Bug 254176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

Sounds like a nice extension.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Future, planned for Firefox 1.5/2.0

Comment 8

[Stefan Monov]

the keyconfig extension does the job.but not for mouse,just for keyboard.some
other extensions perform the mouse part incompletely e.g. tab mix allows you to
shift-click a tab to perform a specific action.should be left as extension,i think.

Comment 9

[Barbara Higgins]

I work for a computer security and antivirus company on the east coast. I need to be able to customize my shortcuts uniformly across all programs (Kate, Kmail, KDE, etc) for efficiency but I can't configure your shortcut keys to match the others. I like FireFox better than Konquerer internet browser but this is a major drawback for me. Please bring your product in line with others.

Thank you.
Barbara Higgins
Virus/Spam Analyst, Cybersoft

Comment 10

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 57805 (which is in Core now) ?

Comment 11

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> dupe of bug 57805 (which is in Core now) ?

No, front-end changes are not Core bugs. It may depend on that bug for the back end work, though.

Comment 12

[Aaron Leventhal]

Mark, is there anything here the "keyconfig" extension doesn't do?

If not, let's close this as WONTFIX

Comment 13

[Miernik]

There are many keys which I haven't found a way to customize through keyconfig extension. For example I would like to rebind "move focus to next link" from Tab to A (like in Opera), and "move focus to previos link" from Shift+Tab to Q.

Comment 14

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 16

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Is this the same as bug 57805?