[Feature Request] Improve Usability and Customization with Keybindings in about:addons

[tradewatcher]

It's possible to install Firefox Developer Edition and copy "Firefox Developer" to the "Release Channel" Version. This means "Firefox Developer Tools" is a normal and hidden XUL Addon/WebExtension.

Why don't you provide this Addon on AMO and add an entry in about:addons. This would provide the option to change this huge amount of (useless) keybindings. It will also make it easier to fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061 ([META] Better keyboard shortcut support)

We don't need 2 keybindings for 1 option... The user can change it to personal preferences (F12 as ex.)

Come on Firefox destroyed really every usability and customization. Why you don't even try to give us some usability and customization back?

[juliandescottes]

This means "Firefox Developer Tools" is a normal and hidden XUL Addon/WebExtension.

This is not the case. We tried to make DevTools into an extension in 2017, but we couldn't. The bug for reducing keyboard shortcuts for DevTools is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1439740

[tradewatcher]

I really think that reducing keyboard shortcuts is the worst way to go. Yes nobody need 2 shortcuts for 1 action....

You don't remove a steering wheel cause you don't have enough space or? You move the seat backwards to get enough space...

Go and fix one of the most wanted features since ~19 years and all this troubles are gone nobody need a WebExtension. The option to enable/disable in about:config is more than enough. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57805 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588710 Deactivate/Remove/Install/Config are "nice to have". Instead of an option to customize you discuss about changes and removing of shortcuts with P2. LOL BTW. "57805" is the request with most duplicates and advocacy! This ignorance is unbelievable and also a reason for Firefox's way to hell.

Whats the problem with porting to a WebExtension?? Merciless change to WE without providing important API's and forbid legacy mode in about:configs? Most important API's for professional users came after v57 or are still not available. xD (Discard, Hiding, Shortcuts, Hide Tab strip, and much more). Stop think I'm an enemy of WE - best idea ever - but the sort of change is a like preparation for FF-suicide.

You don't realize that you lose more and more professional users cause of horrible usability and customization. Every day Firefox lose users because they don't trust Mozilla anymore (Greetings from Waterfox btw.). "They collect the same amount of data like Google". Who install Firefox on the machines of normal users? Google? Apple? OEM's ? NO - professional users (usability), privacy-sensitive users (privacy) and small/middle vendors (features, speed) install Firefox on the machines of their friends/family/customers.

I installed Firefox on much more than 100 machines but I cant recommend Firefox anymore since ~2013. This makes me sad but there's no reason to do so anymore. You still have 200.000 - 1.000.000 prosumer (Downloads of prosumer Addons). If you cant hold them its over. They stopped to spread Firefox since years and you realize it because FF lose ~2% of market share per year.

Chrome offer more and better features, better usability and customization. Chrome is still a little bit faster (NOBODY cares). Firefox doesn't offer more privacy than Google. Firefox get paid by Google and non-public telemetry is more important than features/usability/privacy. Telemetry escapades proof this facts.

Instead of Sidebar improvement, about:shortcuts, address bar commands and other important features to improve workflow you work on funny and less important features like Screenshots. Yes its funny and a nice feature but mostly for normal users. They don't know how to reinstall OS together with Firefox!

Mozilla provide software for communication (Thunderbird, Instabird, Bugzilla) but use other software to communicate (Slack? Github? No Thunderbird for IRC). LOL. You waste resources on FF for Android...Why should i use FF for Android if 20 years old FF for x86 earn such bad reputation?

For many years Chrome was much faster. But the community waited for performance improvements. Instead of performance improvements they got telemetry, **** FF Android, outdated TB/IB, reduced features and customization (WE). Instead of speed improvement and waiting for prosumers to come back you forbid XUL without enough WE support. You have lost the same number of users you have received with performance improvement. But the performance-sensitive users will go back to Chrome as fast as they switched.

But it doesn't matter without a radical change inside Mozilla. Firefox will die anyway in the next 5-10 years. R.I.P. Our only hope is a cooperation between Waterfox, Pale Moon, Basilisk and others to fork and replace the full Mozilla Foundation.