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What is the shortcut to open|close the Sidebar?

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I was very used to have F9 on every platform to open|close the sidebar. As I am a keyboard people, the clicking on the Sidebar icon is not a perfect solution. You had the shortcut and now it's gone.

I respectfully ask for it back.

No troubleshooting info is required, because it's not a failure.

I was very used to have F9 on every platform to open|close the sidebar. As I am a keyboard people, the clicking on the Sidebar icon is not a perfect solution. You had the shortcut and now it's gone. I respectfully ask for it back. No troubleshooting info is required, because it's not a failure.

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@Aleksej: ....I'm sorry, I don't recall what version I used it. If that was removed long time ago, I was stuch with an old version of Firefox.

cor-el gave a hint. It might be the responsability of the developer who creates content for the sidebar to have a shortcut to open|close the content itself... So I will ask the Delicious people to help me in this direction.

Thanks for your guidance! (good questions that pointed me on the "knot" of my issue)

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In which version of what did you use that shortcut, and what kind of a sidebar?

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Ctrl+H opens and closes the History sidebar and Ctrl+B the Bookmarks sidebar. See View > Sidebar.

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@Aleksej: My version of Firefox is 36.0.4 in Linux Ubuntu 14.10. The sidebar that I want to open is the one that has Delicious service inside of it. I suppose other services or kind of things might be in it.

@cor-el: I know that using Ctrl+B gives me the Bookmarks sidebar, or Ctrl-H the History one. Precisely, that is the shortcut that I'm looking for, so I can open|close the Delicious service, or anything else that can be opened|closed with the Sidebar icon.

I'm looking NOT to use the mouse to open|close, but a keyboard shortcut.

I already know that the Customize keyboard plugin does NOT bind a new shortcut, and the Sidebar shortcut is NOT included... or maybe I'm wrong, :D

Modified by celiapgt

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@cor-el: I should've written '...that's the KIND OF shortcut that I'm looking for,...' I'm sorry for the confussion

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@celiapgt: I asked in which version you used F9 for that, because it seemed like they have removed it many years ago.

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If an extension opens the sidebar with content then that extension should provide a shortcut to control this, just like Firefox does for the built-in sidebars. I Have the Live Http Headers extension that uses Ctrl+Shift+L to open the sidebar.

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@Aleksej: ....I'm sorry, I don't recall what version I used it. If that was removed long time ago, I was stuch with an old version of Firefox.

cor-el gave a hint. It might be the responsability of the developer who creates content for the sidebar to have a shortcut to open|close the content itself... So I will ask the Delicious people to help me in this direction.

Thanks for your guidance! (good questions that pointed me on the "knot" of my issue)