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> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar act

> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action. Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option. Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can rebind it to something else (e.g. ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ /) in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts → Firefox, menu title: Get Help. One other problem is, it doesn’t always find the command I’m looking for. E.g. when I typed “dev”, it didn’t show “Web Developer Tools” at first. I then checked Tools menu (it was there), then tried typing it in the Help menu again, and sure enough, it found it this time.

hafta 2y ago
The menu immediately closing was recently fixed[1] in Firefox 136. We'll look into the content of that menu not working correctly. Thanks. 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935257 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935257
liamkearney 2y ago
Shortcat basically does this. It indexes a lot of native AX APIs and also menu items https://shortcat.app https://shortcat.app
Dagonfly 2y ago
I've never gotten this to work on an ISO-keyboard (chunky enter key). It opens "Help" in every single app, even Apple's like Finder or Safari. I've tried GB, German, US-International, and my default EurKey layout. None of them work. This shortcut always felt like an Alt+F4 prank to me.
- madeofpalk 2y ago
  The help menu is what searches all menu items.
  - notpushkin 2y ago
    Yeah. I think the idea was to help the user find out where a command is, so they can use menubar directly next time. Not the brightest idea IMO.
    - everettp 2y ago
      no, when hitting Command-? the help menu bar opens a search box that takes you directly to matching menu items -- like Spotlight for menu items. you can activate them directly from the search box. no learning involved
edanm 2y ago
Thank you! This has been driving me crazy ever since I switched to Firefox.

hafta 2y ago

The menu immediately closing was recently fixed[1] in Firefox 136. We'll look into the content of that menu not working correctly. Thanks. 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935257 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1935257

liamkearney 2y ago

Shortcat basically does this. It indexes a lot of native AX APIs and also menu items https://shortcat.app https://shortcat.app

Dagonfly 2y ago

I've never gotten this to work on an ISO-keyboard (chunky enter key). It opens "Help" in every single app, even Apple's like Finder or Safari. I've tried GB, German, US-International, and my default EurKey layout. None of them work. This shortcut always felt like an Alt+F4 prank to me.

madeofpalk 2y ago
The help menu is what searches all menu items.
- notpushkin 2y ago
  Yeah. I think the idea was to help the user find out where a command is, so they can use menubar directly next time. Not the brightest idea IMO.
  - everettp 2y ago
    no, when hitting Command-? the help menu bar opens a search box that takes you directly to matching menu items -- like Spotlight for menu items. you can activate them directly from the search box. no learning involved

edanm 2y ago

Thank you! This has been driving me crazy ever since I switched to Firefox.