How to bring up Insert/Edit Link dialog in forum post editor via keyboard in Firefox?

I just switched to Firefox from IE. I'm used to being able to bring up the Insert/Edit Link dialog in a forum post by pressing Ctrl+K. This doesn't work in Firefox, as Ctrl+K seems to have a special meaning to Firefox (it puts my cursor up in the Search box at the upper right). And it looks like there's no way to configure the keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. Uggh! Is there any workaround? I'm such a keyboard user, I don't want to have to click on the little link icon to insert a hyperlink.

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steve clark

no documented way to do this. The help page indicates that there is no customizing of keyboard shortcuts. Sorry...

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts?s=keyboard+shortcuts&as=s

Kevin Becker

It looks like you can tweak your about:config to customize key shortcuts. The following link is for an Ubuntu forum but I would speculate that it should work for a Windows installation. http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/53254-how-change-firefox-keyboard-shortcuts.html From that thread I went to here http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys.

So, it looks possible but it'll probably take some work to make it function.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/219043#Comment_219043

It looks like you can tweak your about:config to customize key shortcuts. The following link is for an Ubuntu forum but I would speculate that it should work for a Windows installation. http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/53254-how-change-firefox-keyboard-shortcuts.html From that thread I went to here http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys.

So, it looks possible but it'll probably take some work to make it function.

I poked around at some of that for a while, looked up the bug referred to in that second link, and the last couple of posts there seem to indicate that the info you pointed me to is "woefully out of date," having been superseded by an extension called keyconfig. I tried to find that on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions, but no such luck. The pages linked to from the end of that bug report also seemed quite old and/or not officially sanctioned by Mozilla, so I'm not sure I'd trust the extension enough to want to install it. I guess I'll live with things the way they are. But I keep clicking the paperclip icon when I mean the link icon. At least in IE I could easily distinguish between the two because one I operated from the keyboard and the other via the mouse.

Allen Browne

Have fun with Firefox, Rosie.

You might want to check out Zotero.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/219130#Comment_219130

Have fun with Firefox, Rosie.

You might want to check out Zotero.

I'm not actually new to Firefox. I've had both installed on my old machine for a while, and I love Zotero and was using Firefox mainly just when I needed that. But on my new machine I bit the bullet and made Firefox my default browser. So I'm finally getting used to the things that are reasons I hadn't switched fully before, and found that a couple of them are non-issues now. I installed an extension that makes Firefox go to my homepage whenever I open a new tab (yippee!), for example.