Add a pane in the dashboard (Firefox only) to assign keyboard shortcuts

[jefferysmall]

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Description

I would like to see keyboard shortcuts added to allow the element picker and element zapper operations to be launched without the two-step process of opening the menu and then selection the desired operation. This would be especially useful and a time saver when working on a page where you want to block a series of elements.

So far as I can tell, uBO isn't supporting keyboard shortcuts at the moment.

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Your environment

• uBlock Origin version: 1.16.8
• Browser Name and version: Firefox 60.0.2
• Operating System and version: Xubuntu 18.04

[uBlock-user]

They were removed by gorhill after an issue was raised, see - gorhill/uBlock#2723 (comment)

[aplaice]

This is an issue with Firefox itself — there is no UI for reassigning webextension shortcuts:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384

uBlock Origin provides several "commands" (including entering element picker and element zapper mode) for which shortcuts could be assigned, but does not set any pre-defined shortcuts for them (AFAIK because these occasionally collided with various other, sometimes system, shortcuts and people complained...). Unfortunately this means that without support from the browser (i.e. Firefox) for changing/assigning shortcuts, you can't actually use them.

On Chrom(e|ium) shortcuts can be easily set, by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

Bug on the old tracker: gorhill/uBlock#2870

There is, however, now an option for a webextension to reassign its own shortcuts (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/commands/update).

Potentially, uBlock Origin could work around the Firefox bug by providing a UI for reassigning its own shortcuts. Would a patch providing such support be considered (or is it out-of-scope for uBlock Origin)?

[uBlock-user]

Duplicate of gorhill/uBlock#3473

[jefferysmall]

For whatever it's worth, the latest release of the Flagfox 6.1.0 just re-implemented user-customizable keyboard shortcuts.

• Reimplemented support for customizable hotkeys for actions, instead of just one default (new WebExt API)