Firefox Annoyance

November 26, 2005 8:45 AM

I'm forced to use IE at work. Of course I use Firefox at home. My fingers automatically type Alt-A to get my IE fAvorites dropdown list, but Firefox uses Alt-B for Bookmarks.

Is there a simple way to add Alt-A to Firefox, as an alternative way to invoke Alt-B?

posted by KRS to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

not sure how much of a 1337 hax0r you are, but this page gives you an overview over which files contain the key bindings, and how to add/edit them.
posted by slater at 9:13 AM on November 26, 2005

An extension to the rescue! (Would you expect anything else?)
posted by panoptican at 9:14 AM on November 26, 2005

I can't find any quick way to customize the keyboard shortcuts, but if you can retrain yourself to use ctrl-i, that will open bookmarks in both browsers.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 9:14 AM on November 26, 2005

AutoHotkey will do anything.
posted by crabintheocean at 11:04 AM on November 26, 2005

There is also an extension called PlainOldFavorites which adds a Favorites menu to your Firefox that actually uses the IE favorites. I prefer this, because I am always using that favorites menu from the start menu and I like being able to add to THAT favorites list as opposed to Firefoxes Bookmarks folder.
posted by antifuse at 3:51 AM on November 28, 2005