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> At last! Mozilla fixing longstanding bugs! (I jest)

you joke but they did just close out the initial implementation of a something like 27 year old bug. about:keyboard was recently added to nightly to allow you to change or clear the built in keyboard shortcuts of a bunch of menu items like save, back, refresh, or open dev tools or whatever.


Is CRTL-Q included? They always insisted that applications can't change that shortcut on Linux.
Ctrl-Q (quit application) right next to Ctrl-W (close tab) has been bad UX since forever.
> Ctrl-Q (quit application) right next to Ctrl-W (close tab)

That bug was actually fixed in the Dvorak release...

I bind ctrl-q to lock screen in gnome, which is less bad than losing the whole browser.

I suppose you could also bind it to a noop.

You can tell firefox to ask before quitting ...
You can also tell Firefox to ignore it completely:

    browser.quitShortcut.disabled
As well as to warn:

    browser.warnOnQuit
    browser.warnOnQuitShortcut
Well, apparently I once was aware of these because I have it set in my custom user.js. But I guess ctrl-q will always be lock screen for me, old habits die hard.
and testing it now, it asks me by default, and I never changed that setting
On a German PC keyboard, @ is ALT+Q.

That was a big problem when I switched to macOS. I kept hitting CMD+Q every time I tried to type an email address.

I need source on that Ctrl+Q thing
https://i.imgur.com/8a9Jbj6.png it seems to be available to remap/cancel.
Holy shit does this mean I can disable Ctrl-Shift-C and get my muscle memory for terminal copy back?
There's an extension for that. Quite handy for in-browser terminals like one in AWS etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ctrl-shift-c-...

I installed this extension 5 minutes ago and it's already such an improvement. Never occured to me that there can be extensions to override shortcut defaults.

Thanks!

This was my first thought too!
was that a bug though? cuz it sounds like it was just a new feature that was added
yeah they only have one system for it all and they are all called bugs.

here's the 25 year old bug. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57805

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