Firefox 4 (4.0) and Shortcut Key for Search Bar

[ewemoa]

Trying out Firefox 4 here and noticed that the Ctrl+E shortcut key for the Search Bar from the 3.x days seems defunct (Ctrl+K seems to work).

Checking out:

  http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/764069

led to a work-around of installing and configuration via the following extension:

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/customizable-shortcuts/

Configuration was done via the Shortcuts tab of the Options dialog:

Firefox 4 (4.0) and Shortcut Key for Search Bar

Once a row for the action/shortcut in question was selected, clicking on the 'Edit' button or double-clicking on the shortcut key name made it possible to type a replacement shortcut key.

[skwire]

Been a while, ewemoa, sir.   

[phitsc]

Kind of surprising, after so many betas.

[ewemoa]

skwire:
  Indeed it has, sir

phitsc:
  I was surprised too.  After some pondering it occurred to me that perhaps a project the size of Firefox has just too many details to attend to with the kind of care one might otherwise want...

[Winkie]

For a more lightweight approach (only 3kB ):
Change Search Shortcut

Allows to change the search shortcut. After the comedy with Panorama taking over CTRL+E, then switching to CTRL+SHIFT+E, without restoring CTRL+E, I've decided to make this very simple plug-in to allow people to choose their own shortcut.

-Change Search Shortcut

[ewemoa]

Some fun text in the description for "Change Search Shortcut":

Allows to change the search shortcut. After the comedy with Panorama taking over CTRL+E, then switching to CTRL+SHIFT+E, without restoring CTRL+E, I've decided to make this very simple plug-in to allow people to choose their own shortcut.