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The ability to re-bind any keyboard or mouse shortcuts is major accessibility issue that I think needs more attention (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Okay what the fuck is wrong with browsers and having the stupidest hotkeys? NO, I would NOT like a shortcut for saving the webpage as html. Please disable ctrl-s by default!

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I just want my backspace key to go back a page in my history when I press it, LIKE IT USED TO BE FOR 20+ YEARS.

But no, this is apparently a "poor UI experience", so I have to put my hand on my mouse, locate the pointer, move it to the back button, and then click.

At least Firefox allows you to rummage around under the hood and set it back.

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's fair but you can also use Alt + right/left arrow keys to move forward and back in the page history

[–] HornyOnMain@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Or the side mouse buttons can go forward and back as well. Used to annoy me until I got used to it though

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

I changed them to previous tab / next tab with xmousebuttoncontrol, it's awesome {ACTIVATE}{CTRL}{PGUP}

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I use these mouse buttons in file explorers and electron apps too, it's actually surprising the number of apps that works on.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

For some reason recently on EndeavourOS I haven't been able to use any hot keys on Firefox. No CTRL+arrows, no backspace, no CTRL+H. Not sure what happened

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I bet that's because people trying to type into textbox would sometime defocus, hit back and lose all their text. At least back should go back if there's no data to lose in the tab !

Apparently you can get backspace back with

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/backspace-enabler/

I also just gestures to go back with

https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy

You draw a leftward line with rightclick and it goes back

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

exactly, I accidentally lost a few things back when backspace was the default

alt+left is not that bad of a replacement

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

You can fix this without an extension.

about:config, browser.backspace_action, 0

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, if I could I would un-bind all keys, then look at the list of possible actions and devise my own keyboard control scheme to my liking. And then I should be able to export that to a standardized keybinding file format and carry it with me to other computers and preserve my keybindings.

Games often suffer from the same issue.

I've even made a list of features a keybindings control should have.


Ability to bind multiple keys or key combos to the same action
Ability to delete all keybinds, save keybinds, restore keybinds, undo keybind choice
ability to bind any keyboard, mouse or joystick element to any action
ability to set if the action is HOLD or TOGGLE
ability to bind a key to more than one action
ability to quickly find keybind duplicates 
all actions should have an explanatory tooltip message
when binding a key that is already bound elsewhere, there can be a warning, but enter/ok should just bind the key as requested and not unbind the other
there should be a way to set a key which will change the keybinding to another layout (I think they are called keymap layers, this is becoming a builtin keyboard feature)
reset keybinding to default, should not be something that happens by accident
keybind changes should not require pressing "save" for them to take effect
it should be easy to unbind one key from an action and to unbind all keys from an action 
setting a keybind should not be annoying (you click the action, press the key, it is bound, don't ask a bunch of questions)

[–] rar@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

Whoever made the decision to bind Ctrl-Q (something right next to Ctrl-W) as Quit/Close Window needs to be shot.