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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.


> browser.quitShortcut.disabled

The setting is there, it's editable, but Firefox seems to completely ignore it on Linux.

At least up to 145.0.1.


Hmm, maybe it’s still necessary to rebind ctrl-q in some cases.

This says gnome has ctrl-q to quit applications:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/KeyboardShortcuts

I don’t know if the above is still the default, but I have this in my gnome setup scripts anyway:

    gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys screensaver “[‘<Control>q’]”
(IIRC it’s a terminal command because trying to bind ctrl-q in Settings will quit the Settings window. And you can’t unbind ctrl-q completely, so you have to bind it to something else. You could maybe add it as a custom launcher that just runs /bin/true.)


I use 144.0.2 on Linux and it works entirely fine here.


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!


as a matter of fact... yes https://i.imgur.com/0uxzr4H.png


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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