On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:24:10 -0800 Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:16, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mozilla claims that it can't be done: > > > > "Configuring keyboard shortcuts > > > > Firefox does not provide any method of customizing keyboard shortcuts." > > > > Is this for real (and up-to-date)?! A serious, sophisticated GUI > > application that doesn't allow this sort of customization?! > > yep, the keyboard shortcut code hasn't been seriously overhauled > since the Mozilla 1.x days (pre-Firefox). The have talked about > reworking it at some point, but so far other things have taken priority. > > > I suppose that I could file a wishlist bug, but if upstream already > > acknowledges the deficiency, is there any point? > > I think there is a bug, if you have a bugzilla account you can vote for > it, but I doubt it will make much of a difference. Thanks for the info. > > What I want to do is to bind keystroke combinations to bookmarks, so > > that I can open sites easily with such combos. Is there a way to do > > this? > > I don't know about binding keystrokes to a bookmark, but you can use > keywords. Open the properties of a bookmarked item and enter the > characters you want to use in the keyword field. Now if you type those > characters in the url bar, you will go to that bookmark. Thanks, that'll be useful, but I anyway pretty much get that behavior by just typing the first few characters into the location bar. With keywords, I suppose that I can make that more efficient, although it's annoying that it'll still require at least four keystrokes: CTRL-L to set the focus to the location bar, a single character keyword such as 'k', and ENTER. > If you combine that with a %s instead of a search term in a url, and then > "keyword searchterm" (no quotes) in the url bar will perform that search. > For example I have an imdb keyword, so if I type imdb casablanca, it > searches imdb for casablanca. I've heard of this before, but never paid much attention to. I really need to start doing this for things like searching for bugs in package 'foo', and so on. /me sets up a bookmark with url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=%s and keyword=db Hey! It works! Thanks! Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org