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thePaulV / Most-Recent-Tab

Firefox addon that adds a keyboard shortcut to switch back to your most recently selected tab. Useful to alternate between two tabs and to easily go back to your last tab if you switch to another briefly.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/most-recent-tab/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Allow "^" key to be set as shortcut #8

Open sojusnik opened 6 years ago

sojusnik commented 6 years ago

Hey!

Thanks for this great extension!

I would love to use this extension with Ctrl + ^ (the key above "tab" and to the left of "1" on a German keyboard), but it's not possible to assign this one at the moment.

Could you kindly have a look on that?

Thanks in advance!

thePaulV commented 6 years ago

Hi @sojusnik, thanks for reporting the issue. If it's not working, I suspect it's a limitation with Firefox's API. The shortcut documentation says the key has to be one of:

I'll submit a bug to Firefox to expand the API, and update this issue with a link to bugzilla once I have. Thanks in advance for your patience, as it might take a while to get resolved.

thePaulV commented 2 years ago

@sojusnik, are you able to set this ctrl-^ shortcut using the built in Manage Extension Shortcuts page on Firefox now?

sojusnik commented 2 years ago

No, still says invalid.

sojusnik commented 2 years ago

But isn't this add-on obsolete, since Firefox has this functionality built-in already? You can change the tab switching behaviour (recent or in order) in the settings of Firefox.

thePaulV commented 2 years ago

Thanks for trying @sojusnik. I still use it since I like ctrl-tab to go left/right.

chamalis commented 1 year ago

Hi @thePaulV I am trying to set Ctrl+~, but it's not a valid option. Any way around that? Using Firefox 117.0.1

thePaulV commented 1 year ago

Hi @chamalis , you could try setting it using either the Most Recent Tabs preferences pane (Addons, then click the gear next to Most Recent Tab, then click Preferences), or the newer built-in-to-Firefox Manage Extension Shortcuts page (Addons, then click the gear at the top, then click Manage Extension Shortcuts). It's s up to Firefox which keys are bindable, so if neither of those approaches work unfortunately it's limited by Firefox.

chamalis commented 1 year ago

It's limited by Firefox then, thanks