I am trying to switch to Firefox for numerous reasons but I am way to used to the Chrome shortcuts. Most are the same but I much prefer the Ctrl+Shift+N of Firefox and not the Ctrl+Shift+P of New Private Window. Is there a way to change the Firefox shorctcut? I have tried Saka Key but it does not respect Shift presses.
Asked
Active
Viewed 3,125 times
4
-
Are you using Firefox 66+? – Avia Efrat Apr 16 '19 at 17:17
-
@AviaEfrat Yes. – William Apr 16 '19 at 17:21
-
Note the conditions mentioned in the following answer: https://superuser.com/a/1345520/1015250 – Avia Efrat Apr 16 '19 at 17:25
-
@AviaEfrat unfortunately its worse than that it doesn't even register shift as a modifier – William Apr 16 '19 at 17:35
1 Answers
0
This add-on solves this problem in 90% of scenarios:
- Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) for Firefox by Peter Malecka & Mike Crittenden
It allows you to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts -- and among those, you can finally invoke a blank New Private Window pressing Ctrl+Shift+N. It is able to override Firefox's own powerful Undo Close Window (a command which raises some people's eyebrows, and still remains available just a right-click away) -- and finally makes this combo work just like it does for New Incognito Window in Chrome/Edge/Chromium-based browsers and also similar to its equivalent in Apple Safari.
Limitations: THE NEW SHORTCUT ONLY WORKS IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN ACTUAL WEBPAGE LOADED.
Due to Mozilla Firefox's own "security" measures, it does NOT work on any of the "about:" or internal pages (about:blank, about:newtab, etc.), as well as on a new tab, empty windows, the downloads/bookmarks manager, a pop-up, etc.; as I type this, I also realized it does not work if the cursor is inside an active text input field -- I have to click on the empty blank area of this webpage first, and only then will Ctrl+Shift+N work.
Another limitation: I'm using Firefox on Windows, and I tried assigning Mac-inspired shortcuts such as Ctrl+, (comma) and Ctrl+. (period) to Open Settings Page and Open Extensions Page respectively. No idea why, but that didn't work, sigh (I was able to create these and more for Chrome/Edge for Windows with the extension Keyboard Shortcuts though, for anyone interested).
Lucas Pestana
- 21
- 4