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Firefox 3.6, Fullscreen and WebDeveloper

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March 3, 2010 5 comments

After updating to Firefox 3.6, I started having issues with WebDeveloper, the single favorite Firefox extension I’m using on an almost daily basis.
Namely, the keyboard shortcut I was using most frequently ⌘-⇧-F had been overwritten by the latest Firefox update; instead of calling the ‘Display Element Information’ function from WebDeveloper, it now called View in Full Screen mode.
Frustrating, to say the least.

Since I didn’t want to change my typing, a bit of Googling led me to KeyConfig, an amazing Firefox extension (more info here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=72994) which allows you to change almost ALL keyboard shortcuts in Firefox and the installed extensions.

Hope this proves useful to someone else as well.

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  1. Ralph said
    on May 4, 2010

    Sweeet! I am going to check that out now. Thanks for the tip

  2. Sherman Unkefer said
    on September 10, 2010

    Thank you!!! Endless night of swearing over!!

  3. Mag said
    on November 4, 2010

    Unfortunately Keyconfig doesn’t work with version 3.6.12;/

    The solution I came up with :
    in the menubar of webdeveloper
    go to: options->keys and replace shift+command+f to the other shortcut…

    Not perfect but I’d rather change shortcut than not have it at all ;D

  4. Stocking Fillers said
    on November 26, 2010

    I am using Fire Fox 3.6 version and its really nice i can do smooth search and even the response time is also very good. the fire fox has also very good as compare IE. because it aspect so many ad ons.

  5. Adrienne Randall said
    on December 24, 2010

    Unfortunately Keyconfig doesn’t work with version 3.6.12;/ The solution I came up with : in the menubar of webdeveloper go to: options->keys and replace shift+command+f to the other shortcut… Not perfect but I’d rather change shortcut than not have it at all ;D