Firefox

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Configuration

  • Last visited tab with Ctrl-Tab — Go to about:config, and set browser.ctrlTab.previews to true [1].

Keyboard shortcuts

Alt-Shift Access key. Eg. Alt-Shift-F to go to search box in MediaWiki

Extensions

Candidates

Extension I might install in the future:

  • Extension to suspend tabs. ! Careful, this may lead to loss of work if you typed text in a form and the page gets suspended

penta.dactyl

penta.dactyl is an add-on that turns Firefox into a powerful vim-like browser.

Installation from source (on Firefox 48)
git clone https://github.com/5digits/dactyl.git
  • Make project
cd dactyl/
make -C pentadactyl xpi
  • Then in Firefox, go to add-on tab, and select install .xpi from file located in dactyl/downloads.
Installation
  • First disable add-on signature policy. Go to [about:config] and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
  • Download the latest nightly build and install it
I installed pentadactyl-20160121.xpi on Firefox 44.
  • Restore add-on signature policy
Usage
  • See :help for quick help
  • f show hints and follow a link.
  • y current location.
  • p paste new location.
  • H L history back/forward.
  • ^n ^p next / previous tab.
  • Tip! Type ^v twice to paste text in text field (to go into passthrough mode).
  • :mkp to save current configuration


Customization

I prefer to use ^j ^k to go to next/previous tab, like I do to navigate between buffers.

:map -builtin -description "Next tab" <C-j> <C-n>
:map -builtin -description "Previous tab" <C-k> <C-p>
:mkp