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Change "Save As" context menu shortcut

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SoshiGEE
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As you all know the 'save as' shortcut in the right click context menu is 'v', right? Since I use it quite often, I'd like to change it to 'l' for easier accessibility when also having to press 'enter' afterwards. I used to be able to do this by editing the en-US.jar file, but in the newer versions of Firefox this file is nowhere to be found.

Unfortunately Google isn't being much of a help either. Also, I don't want an add-on or plugin, I just want to be able to change the keyboard shortcut.

Does anyone know of a way this can be achieved in the newer Firefox versions?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

As you all know the 'save as' shortcut in the right click context menu is 'v', right? Since I use it quite often, I'd like to change it to 'l' for easier accessibility when also having to press 'enter' afterwards. I used to be able to do this by editing the en-US.jar file, but in the newer versions of Firefox this file is nowhere to be found. Unfortunately Google isn't being much of a help either. Also, I don't want an add-on or plugin, I just want to be able to change the keyboard shortcut. Does anyone know of a way this can be achieved in the newer Firefox versions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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You don't want an add-on...

I think the .jar file you're looking for probably is compressed with others into the omni.ja file. We had a thread last year where a user successfully altered that file to change some keyboard shortcuts, but I haven't tried it myself. See: Making the Home/End keys work on Mac like they do on Windows/Linux

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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You don't want an add-on...

I think the .jar file you're looking for probably is compressed with others into the omni.ja file. We had a thread last year where a user successfully altered that file to change some keyboard shortcuts, but I haven't tried it myself. See: Making the Home/End keys work on Mac like they do on Windows/Linux

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Actually, that thread isn't directly relevant to the "accelerator" keys on menus, but the overall approach probably is similar.

SoshiGEE
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Yeah, actually, I found out that while that specific .jar doesn't exist anymore, the keyboard shortcuts are now handled by browser.dtd in the omni.ja file, so I managed to change them there.

Thanks for the link though, that would've probably had made it easier to figure out, lol.