https://github.com/mooz/keysnail

Allows you to bind commands to key sequences in Mozilla Firefox
https://github.com/mooz/keysnail

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Allows you to bind commands to key sequences in Mozilla Firefox

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail
• Owner: mooz
• Created: 2009-07-10T10:46:31.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-05T02:01:06.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T01:37:14.494Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://wiki.github.com/mooz/keysnail
• Size: 38 MB
• Stars: 701
• Watchers: 64
• Forks: 56
• Open Issues: 91
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
KeySnail

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For those who misses Emacs keys on Linux (both in Firefox and Chrome)

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Good news! I started a new

project [xkeysnail](https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail), which provides you a

key-configuration functionality on **every** application (including Firefox and

Chrome) on Linux (it's like AutoHotKey on Windows). This frees you from

limitations of web-browsers that prohibits you to override keys such as `Ctrl+n`

and `Ctrl+p`.

In combination of Vim-oriented browsing-addons such

as [Surfingkeys](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/) (BTW, this add-on is

a way better than old-style KeySnail I

feel), [xkeysnail](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/) provides you a

better browsing experience as in KeySnail, I believe.

KeySnail doesn't support Firefox57+

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Since Firefox 57 dropped several important features required by KeySnail (or Vimperator), there is no chance to migrate KeySnail to Firefox 57+ for now.

The most important feature, which has been unfortunately dropped in Firefox 57+, is API for overriding browser-level shortcut keys. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061 for details. Since current API only allows content-level shortcut keys, KeySnail doesn't work in most of the places including location bars, search field, and so forth.

If you want to keep using KeySnail, I recommend using Waterfox https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ instead of Firefox. Several KeySnail users have already reported that they are enjoying Waterfox.

Another option is to switch to other add-ons that still work in Firefox 57+. I

tried several add-ons and personally

recommend [Surfingkeys](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/), which is

highly extensible and has sophisticated APIs.

Thanks for using KeySnail! Without your encouraging reactions, I couldn't enjoy such a long-time lasting development.

mooz

About

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KeySnail is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox that aims to be a competitor

and lightweight alternative to

[Vimperator](http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator). Unlike Vimperator,

*KeySnail provides comfortable browsing experience for Emacs users*,

but its target users are not limited to.

See https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki for details.

How to release

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1. Update the package version by `./set_version_info.rb X.Y.Z`

2. Rebuild the package by `./createpackage.sh`

3. Sign `keysnail.xpi` file in addons.mozilla.org

4. Replace `keysnail.xpi` with signed one, and update hash information in `update.rdf` by `./updatehash.sh`

5. Update signature information in `update.rdf` for auto-updating by `mccoy`

6. Push changes to GitHub