Feature request: Configurable shortcuts/hotkeys #1647

I would like a menu to be able to change the default shortcuts for various actions. (eg. New Tab, Close Tab, Re-open in x container, Pin Tab)The majority of apps I use have configurable shortcuts, and I find it strange that after so long, firefox does not have a menu for changing the default keys.

This sounds like a great idea, but this feature request should probably be made to Firefox directly (there probably already is one already).

I'm afraid it looks like it will take some time until Firefox implements this:

• There is a request in Bugzilla from 23 years ago requesting this same thing
• I also found a similar (but more specific request) from 14 years ago here
• In connect.mozilla.org it's currently the 14th most voted idea (see here).

Maybe, until Firefox finally implements this feature "in the right way" (which, according to the discussions found in Bugzilla, requires a non-trivial amount of work) what Librewolf could do is to allow overwriting the most common ones (new tab, next tab, previous tab, close tab, etc...) through a simple mechanism (ie. no new UI, no check for already existing shortcut, etc...).

Being able to overwrite tab related shortcuts would make the "vimium" extension way more usable.

Maybe allow existing keyboard shortcuts to be overridden by extensions like, for example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

I use the same extension in Chrome based browsers and it works fine overriding builtin keyboard shortcuts.
But Firefox has SO MANY builtin shortcuts and doesn't allow overriding. It makes it difficult to create convenient shortcuts (overriding builtin ones I don't use anyway) in this extension on Firefox based browsers.

zen browser (also based on Firefox) has configurable keyboard shortcuts, might be worth seeing how they are doing it as a polyfil until firefox ever implement?

Sadly I can't use Librewolf as it clashes with my system shortcuts :[