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I have installed the Keyconfig add-on and configured it to toggle Offline Mode on Firefox, whenever I press Ctrl + Shift + O
. It worked fine on previous versions of Firefox (before version 28.0).
However, now, when I have the Developer Tools pane open, pressing Ctrl + Shift + O
causes the pane to switch to the Toolbox Options tab and consequently my 'toggle offline' option does not get triggered. (This happens only when the keyboard is 'focused' on the Developer Tools pane; if I'm actually working on a web page (i.e. some web page element is in focus), Ctrl + Shift + O
always works regardless of whether the Developer Tools pane is open or not.)
I don't think a plugin or add-on would help in this regard, because the Ctrl + Shift + O
shortcut assignment seems to be part of Firefox's Developer Tools pane itself. (After all, Keyconfig, via which I customized that shortcut, is also an add-on!)
As such, I'm looking for a possible way of altering the configurations of the Developer Tools toolbox (or Firefox itself, for that matter) in order to regain control of my keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O
. (Well, I know it would be easier to change my shortcut to a different one, but I'm so accustomed to pressing Ctrl + Shift + O
whenever required, that I cannot get rid of it now. :) ) I have been looking up the issue on the web for quite a long time, but still could not arrive at a satisfactory solution.
Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated.
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Thanks for the detailed clarification! Tired of all the complications (and the demise of Keyconfig) I wrote my own script to handle the keystrokes that I'm interested in - and it seems to work everywhere, including all the cases you have pointed out above :) only caveat being that I have to run it manually every time I restart the browser.
– Janaka Bandara – 2018-08-12T02:49:40.317@JanakaBandara great idea to write your own script - I'm interested in that. Would you be willing to make it easy for other people to use? Maybe you could make a new "example KeyConfig" script without your other utility functions and with some instructions for how people put their own keys? – AdamS – 2018-08-15T16:45:09.250
1Thanks @AdamS! I'll give it a try - in fact I tried to make an extension out of it, some time back, but had to give up eventually due to some extension packaging/installation issues and lack of time. – Janaka Bandara – 2018-08-16T03:50:00.850