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Show HN: Shortkeys – custom keyboard shortcuts for the browser
- mcrittenden 6y agoIf you're wondering how this is different from Vimium and friends, there are 2 main things: 1. Shortkeys makes it very easy to create/customize your own in the GUI, no matter how tech-savvy you are, and it doesn't ship with any default shortcuts. 2. Shortkeys tries to fix the "it doesn't work when you have the URL bar or a new tab page focused!" problem by supporting native browser extension shortcuts as much as possible. More info on that here: https://github.com/mikecrittenden/shortkeys/wiki/FAQs-and-Troubleshooting#do-i-use-the-browsers-keyboard-shortcuts-settings-or-the-shortkeys-options-page https://github.com/mikecrittenden/shortkeys/wiki/FAQs-and-Tr...
- bovine3dom 6y agoRe 2.: Firefox (only) lets you update commands from your extension, so you could control everything from your own options page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/commands/update https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... In Tridactyl we give the commands generic names and assign to them as the user binds to them: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/pull/2582/files https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/pull/2582/files