Keyboard Shortcuts in Chrome / Firefox / Waterfox

There is a very nice extension for creating shortcuts in Chrome / Chromium.

Shortkeys

https://github.com/crittermike/shortkeys

I have the following combinations (sometimes more, sometimes less)

However, as the extension explains (I just noticed recently), there is a more powerful way to create shortcuts, however it doesn't accept any key combination.

https://github.com/crittermike/shortkeys/wiki/FAQs-and-Troubleshooting#Do_I_use_the_browsers_Keyboard_Shortcuts_settings_or_the_Shortkeys_options_page

So I went to chrome://extensions/shortcuts

and there I re-created the same shortcuts, within the Shortkeys extension (important, you can only map shortcuts enabled by the extension)

(some examples)

and here are new ones and favourite of mine

LOCATION: Search Google for selected text

UTILITY: Capture full size screenshot (max height is 16,348px due to browser limitation)

UTILITY: Force capture full size screenshot (when window is not scrollable)

It is a pity I cannot specify here special keys like 'only the numeric keyboard' (you can within the Extension settings), but I would rather make the shortcuts more 'available / consistent'.

For Waterfox / Firefox I use Vimium

https://github.com/philc/vimium

With similar mappins

# Insert your preferred key mappings here.
unmapAll
map <c-right> nextTab
map <c-left> previousTab
map <c-up> removeTab
map <c-down> restoreTab

map <c-.> goBack
map <c-/> goForward


map <c-0> createTab
map <c-1> openCopiedUrlInNewTab
map <c-2> Vomnibar.activateInNewTab
map <c-3> Vomnibar.activate
map <c-4> Vomnibar.activateEditUrlInNewTab

There is however one key combination (2 actually) that I had to create within the Operating System (Linux / LXDE)

• Whatever is selected (or in clipboard) > Open in a new Waterfox tab
• Whatever is selected (or in clipboard)> Open in a new Waterfox window

It works inside / outside browsers. It is a huge time saver.

I hope you (or me in the future) find this useful.