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keyboard shortcut for Open Link in New Window

Fred Krumbein
Fred Krumbein
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Why in the world did Mozilla change the keyboard shortcut for Open Link in New Window from the standard ctrl-W to ctrl-D? This's been the standard on all different applications for years and years--since time immemorial! What were they thinking?!!

(Do they hate standardization? Do they wanna make people's lives difficult?)

Why in the world did Mozilla change the keyboard shortcut for Open Link in New Window from the standard ctrl-W to ctrl-D? This's been the standard on all different applications for years and years--since time immemorial! What were they thinking?!! (Do they hate standardization? Do they wanna make people's lives difficult?)

Modified by Fred Krumbein

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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W was taken for a different menu item, which is related to the Container tabs feature (Multi-Account Containers).

There is a somewhat complicated -- unofficial, community-supported -- way to modify access keys on menus, involving a startup script. I don't know whether you want to look into that, but I have a page on startup (userChrome.js) scripts here:

https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-js.html

and a script for this change here:

https://www.userchrome.org/samples/autoconfig-context-menu-items-W.zip

That has four changes:

  • Change Copy Link back to Copy Link Location
  • Change Copy Email Address back to Copy Email Address
  • Change Open Link in New Window back to Open Link in New Window
  • Change Open Link in New Container Tab to Open Link in New Container Tab
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Just to clarify, I was referring to the key you can press after you right-click a link. I don't use the Ctrl key. Are you referring to something different?