Quickly select a container with keyboard

[adiasandre96]

I love this extension for Firefox.

I think it would be easier and quicker if it were possible to quickly choose a container with a key on the keyboard.
For example "Business" container could be the "B" or "1" key, "Personal" container could be the "P" or "2" key, etc... This way, when I click on a link that opened Firefox, I just had to press one key.

Thank you!

[tiansh]

Interesting idea it is. But not useful to myself: My containers use non-latin names. So, PR is welcomed. Or maybe I could work on it a few days later (whenever I have time).

[charlieegan3]

I didn't realise there was an issue, I added this for myself in #3. Hope that works!

[simonwex]

@charlieegan3 & @tiansh while the type-name-to-select flow works, I thought it might be faster to just assign a number to each container? And then use CMD+{number} to select?

Thoughts?

[charlieegan3]

I personally prefer the type-name-to-select option better because:

• it works for 10+ containers
• it doesn’t require one to know the order of the containers

Of course, both methods could theoretically be supported in at the same time.

[charlieegan3]

While #3 was closed, it was included in the extension earlier in the year. 01136a9

[tiansh]

Current solution based on name of containers. It does work in some situation. But using numbers may be a good idea. IMO, using numbers would be benefit to:

• Multiple containers with same name prefix
• Containers with non-Latin (especially CJK) names

Using CMD+1 would switch to first tab for Firefox on Mac, and open first pined program on system task bar for Windows. So it may not be a desired choice.

I'm not sure if it is a good idea. What I'm thinking about is: When user had not typed something for searching. The user may hit any number keys 0~9, and the nth container will be chosen. Containers are 1-indexed while 0 means the 10th container here. But this modification will be a breaking change if the user have container name starts with a numeral character. So, I would like to keep it here for discussion before any changes.

[kud]

I wanted to create a ticket but it's exactly what I need. Being able to choose via the keyboard the container.

If it's tricky depending on the keyboard layout, we could add the feature that it's the user who chooses the shortcut.

[kud]

To be fair I use also this extension and it works well https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/easy-container-shortcuts/ but can't use it inside Always in Container.

[dAnjou]

Hi, and first of all thank you for this nice extension!

Been using it for a few days now, and today I was wondering if I could select a container by pressing a number instead of moving the cursor and clicking a button.

Good thing I checked the code to discover it's possible by starting to type the container's name. You should definitely advertise that feature in the README and in the extension's description!

Regarding supporting the numbers 0-9 additionally I'd say that having more than 10 containers or naming container starting with a number are really edge cases and shouldn't be considered. I'd say go ahead and implement the numbers 👍

[tukusejssirs]

I would be happy with a drop-down list of all containers which would be selected, so that the user could start typing the container name rightaway.