i have been steadfastly refusing to use Chromium over Firefox for a long time, but there's this extension for Chromium which remaps the close-tab shortcut from ctrl+w to ctrl+c, which cannot be done in Firefox at all apparently
and my relationship with Firefox might be over 😢
@danso Fair play for trying...
-How about a external keyboard shortcut key using an app?
For example CTRL+2 / CTRL+SHIFT+W instead of CTRL+W (just something similar)
@freeschool you have my attention... do you know of any such thing?
my requirements are that ctrl+c closes a tab, and ctrl+w does not. bonus points if ctrl+w deletes a word instead ;^)
@danso
will put on short-rang list of things :)
also consider meanwhile these:
- If Middle-click on mouse to close Tab would work sometimes (again not perfect but sometimes a mouse click could work as well as keyboard shortcut)
- CTRL+BCKSPC for word delete
:)
@freeschool thanks for your help! i don't think you quite understand what i am trying to do.
i know that keys exist for things like closing tabs and deleting words. the problem is that Firefox's keys for doing these things are unique, and conflict with every other program i use.
ctrl+w is a particular offender, since i use it so often in the shell. with Firefox it instantly closes whatever i was typing.
@danso
Agree - you need that specifically not some work around. Until I find that specifically then I'll calm the suggestion down :)
@freeschool i have looked into re-mapping it myself, but Firefox takes special steps to make changing ctrl+w super hard. aside from patching and recompiling, i don't think there is a solution