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zohaib2002 / Omnibox-Shortcuts

Chrome Extension to access websites quickly by typing keywords in the Omnibar
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Allow configuring the shortcut/provide different ones for different keybaord layouts #1

Open kamtschatka opened 2 months ago

kamtschatka commented 2 months ago

I am using a German keyboard layout, where the ` key is on the right side, next to backspace. Tab is on the left side. Additionally to type `, i have to press it twice. This adds ``, so then I have to press backspace to only have 1 and then I have to press "tab" to get omnibox shortcuts to show up. This makes it pretty much useless to me^^

Would be cool to allow configuring when the omnixbox shortcuts are activating. I am thinking e.g. by writing "," and then "tab". That still involves 2 hands, but I never press "," and "tab" right after each other anyways, and I don't have this whole spiel with pressing a key twice and then erasing 1 character again.

zohaib2002 commented 2 months ago

Sadly, Chrome only allows you to configure one keyword associated with your extension and does not allow it to be changed after the extension is installed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15967530/let-the-user-choose-the-keyword-for-my-omnibox-chrome-extension

Would it be helpful, if I changed it from ' key to spacebar in the next update?

kamtschatka commented 2 months ago

Ah ok, unfortunate. yeah i guess spacebar instead of ` would work