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Dante López
Dante López

Reputation: 223

Add a Keyboard Shortcut to Firefox Extension

I'm developing a Firefox Extension. I added a new item to the "Tools" Menu to open my extension, but I would like to add a keyboard shortcut to open my extension (something like 'control + alt + x').

Upvotes: 12

Views: 6093

Answers (3)

kjones
kjones

Reputation: 1423

The commands key is a good way to do this these days; for instance to toggle the main extension pop up (known as the browser_action), use the following in manifest.json:

"commands": {
  "_execute_browser_action": {
    "suggested_key": {
      "default": "Ctrl+Shift+Y"
    }
  }
}

This also exposes an entry in the Add-ons Manager -> Manage Extension Shortcuts settings area where the user can re-map the keyboard shortcut.

Read more on the documentation page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/commands

Upvotes: 9

Arunas Bart
Arunas Bart

Reputation: 2718

If you need to add shortcut key to Firefox own menu to execute addon action, then you need to edit extension\content\firebug\firefox\browserMenu.js and add accesskey:

    // Firefox page context menu
    $menupopupOverlay(doc, $(doc, "contentAreaContextMenu"), [
        $menuseparator(doc),
        $menuitem(doc,{
            id: "menu_ext",
            ....
            accesskey: "s"
        })
    ]);

Upvotes: 0

Dante López
Dante López

Reputation: 223

I've found it by myself 

<keyset id="mainKeyset"> <key id="key_convert" key="x" modifiers="accel alt" oncommand="OpenMyAddOn()"/> </keyset>

Upvotes: 7

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