Comments on: How to add useful keyboard shortcuts in Firefox using Keyconfig http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: JBradlee http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1229 JBradlee Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:31:45 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1229 THANK YOU! I have been trying for awhile now to make the Windows-standard shortcut for next MDI window to work as the Next Tab command. I have Ctrl-Shift-F6 set up on my multi-button mouse next to Alt-Tab so I can switch apps and windows without taking my hand off the mouse and now that efficiency works in FF3! This has been my one and only grievance with FF and now it's solved - it seems I was doing everything right except downloading the functions package. THANK YOU! I have been trying for awhile now to make the Windows-standard shortcut for next MDI window to work as the Next Tab command. I have Ctrl-Shift-F6 set up on my multi-button mouse next to Alt-Tab so I can switch apps and windows without taking my hand off the mouse and now that efficiency works in FF3!

This has been my one and only grievance with FF and now it’s solved - it seems I was doing everything right except downloading the functions package.

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1227 Barry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:13:18 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1227 Thanks. The functions add-on is identical to the one I found by tracking to their homepage, and I suspect that's the case with the keyconfig add-on itself, too. I will be looking for further updates, but keyconfig at this point really does everything I wanted it to. That may change in the future, of course, but it seems to be an app one can grow with. Thanks. The functions add-on is identical to the one I found by tracking to their homepage, and I suspect that’s the case with the keyconfig add-on itself, too. I will be looking for further updates, but keyconfig at this point really does everything I wanted it to. That may change in the future, of course, but it seems to be an app one can grow with.

]]> By: admin http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1226 admin Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:33:58 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1226 I am a mere user of keyconfig. Keyconfig and functions for keyconfig are maintained by different guys if I am not mistaken. Here are the latest versions of both of them (you need to first install keyconfig and then functions for keyconfig) as of today: http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi http://www.pqrs.org/tekezo/firefox/extensions/functions_for_keyconfig/files/functions_for_keyconfig-1.3.13.xpi I am a mere user of keyconfig. Keyconfig and functions for keyconfig are maintained by different guys if I am not mistaken.

Here are the latest versions of both of them (you need to first install keyconfig and then functions for keyconfig) as of today:

http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi

http://www.pqrs.org/tekezo/firefox/extensions/functions_for_keyconfig/files/functions_for_keyconfig-1.3.13.xpi

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1225 Barry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:50:17 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1225 Well, that was interesting. I discovered your separate Functions for Keyconfig add-on, found the older one, followed it back to the homesite, found the updated one, installed that, and--success. All is working as it should. Sorry for the hassle, sorry for the wasted space on your site, but thanks for the excellent program. Is there anyway the two separate add-ons might be conflated in a future release, so as to make it a little easier for other users to find one updated file, instead of two? Well, that was interesting. I discovered your separate Functions for Keyconfig add-on, found the older one, followed it back to the homesite, found the updated one, installed that, and–success. All is working as it should.

Sorry for the hassle, sorry for the wasted space on your site, but thanks for the excellent program. Is there anyway the two separate add-ons might be conflated in a future release, so as to make it a little easier for other users to find one updated file, instead of two?

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1224 Barry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:29:25 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1224 At the risk of making a nuisance of myself, I followed the link back from the add-on page to your homepage, clicked the keyconfig.xpi file, and installed 20080611, which I figured would be the latest. It brought up the same Keyconfig screen as before, however, even down to my last attempted Next Tab edit. Still doesn't work. At the risk of making a nuisance of myself, I followed the link back from the add-on page to your homepage, clicked the keyconfig.xpi file, and installed 20080611, which I figured would be the latest. It brought up the same Keyconfig screen as before, however, even down to my last attempted Next Tab edit. Still doesn’t work.

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1223 Barry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:24:38 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1223 Just noticed 20071212.2 on the add-on site. Deleted the older version, and tried to install the newer one, only to get this: "Firefox could not install the file at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/21860/keyconfig-20071212.2-fx+tb.xpi because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption) -261" Just noticed 20071212.2 on the add-on site. Deleted the older version, and tried to install the newer one, only to get this:

“Firefox could not install the file at

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/21860/keyconfig-20071212.2-fx+tb.xpi

because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption)
-261″

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1222 Barry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:02:03 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1222 If it helps, I'm using version 20060828.1. If it helps, I’m using version 20060828.1.

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1221 Barry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:58:10 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1221 I must be doing something wrong, then. When I bring up the Keyconfig screen, there is no f4kc_NextTab();. Instead, the names are, for example: Close Window cmd_findPrevious Delete Home Open File... etc. If I create a name, Next Tab, and put f4kc_NextTab(); in the Key Editor window, then assign it a key, the command doesn't work. I must be doing something wrong, then. When I bring up the Keyconfig screen, there is no f4kc_NextTab();. Instead, the names are, for example:

Close Window
cmd_findPrevious
Delete
Home
Open File…

etc. If I create a name, Next Tab, and put f4kc_NextTab(); in the Key Editor window, then assign it a key, the command doesn’t work.

]]> By: admin http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1220 admin Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:01:43 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1220 I am yet to update this tutorial so it is relevant for FF3. In the mean time, here's how you can set shortcuts for Previous and Next tabs: In Keyconfig's options window, find f4kc_NextTab(); and set a new key. Similarly find f4kc_PrevTab(); and set your desired key. Take a look at this screenshot: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6476/keyconfiglm4.png I am yet to update this tutorial so it is relevant for FF3. In the mean time, here’s how you can set shortcuts for Previous and Next tabs:

In Keyconfig’s options window, find f4kc_NextTab(); and set a new key. Similarly find f4kc_PrevTab(); and set your desired key.

Take a look at this screenshot: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6476/keyconfiglm4.png

]]> By: Barry http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/05/11/how-to-add-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-in-firefox-using-keyconfig/#comment-1219 Barry Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:13:13 +0000 http://www.howtotuts.com/?p=53#comment-1219 Like the last poster, the thing I missed most in FF3 were the simpler keyboard bindings from Opera. I've changed my tab focus using Keyconfig successfully: thanks! However, I can't command PreviousTab or NextTab and their associated commands to work. Binding the result to any key combination does nothing when FF3 is closed and restarted. Am I missing something, here? Like the last poster, the thing I missed most in FF3 were the simpler keyboard bindings from Opera. I’ve changed my tab focus using Keyconfig successfully: thanks! However, I can’t command PreviousTab or NextTab and their associated commands to work. Binding the result to any key combination does nothing when FF3 is closed and restarted. Am I missing something, here?

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