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Change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox
Where do I go to change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox? I've been in the settings section and used their setting search, both for "keyb" and for "shortc" and nothing likely-looking comes up.
Is there even an option to do this?
Debian Bookworm / KDE Plasma on a repurposed Macbook Pro. I have another Macbook with MacOS on it, and I'm trying to unify the Cut/Copy/Paste keys to use Meta instead of Control. Plasma has system settings that have changed the scheme for KDE-provided apps, but others (and FF is where I notice it the most) do not respond to the global settings.
Even better would be to also remap (eg) Ctrl+Leftclick on links to Meta+Leftclick, but I'll settle for the edit stuff for now.
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Currently, there doesn't appear to be a user-friendly way to change the keyboard shortcuts on Firefox without extensions, regardless of OS. It might be a good idea to upvote this post on Mozilla Connect, and maybe it might be added into Firefox in the future.
There are, however, three options.
Using an extension (easier, Firefox only)
The Shortkeys extension appears to allow shortcut modifications. However, it has severe limitations, as the developer notes:
shortkeys only works in the context of a loaded page. What does NOT work is: new tab page, addons page, or any other internal pages such as about:config,about:newtab,about:addons, etc. shortkeys cannot override Firefox default shortcuts such as: ctrl+j, alt+d and others using the "Do nothing" action outside of the webpage e.g. the default firefox chortcut [sic] will still work in the url bar/ search bar shortkeys does not work in the url bar or the search bar, it only works in the context of a webpage shortkeys will start working when the page has finished loading, not right after you opened a page, or clicked a link (this annoys me, too, but yeah - API Limitation:(
Using kinto (easier, works outside of Firefox)
As suggested by samcarter in the comments, kinto remaps shortcuts using the CTRL key to the meta key. It appears to work systemwide, and may work for OP's case, but I don't have a Mac to test it on. This would work outside of Firefox, hypothetically. However, as OP noted in that comment thread, it is X11-only.
Using autoconfig (harder, Firefox)
If you're willing to tinker a bit, you could use an autoconfig file to do the work for you. This may have its limitations, but it's worth a shot.
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