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by jknz 2412 days ago
I am as happy as I could get with Firefox except for the native tab-switching Among opened tabs.

Tab search is done by typing % in the address bar followed by a keyword to search among opened tabs.

- Ctr+L to get in the address bar

- Shift+6 to type %

- space,

- type your keywords.

My fingers, especially the pinky just cannot do this, particularly switching between Ctrl and Shift. Also, you have to release Shift otherwise the space doesn’t get typed.

Please, please come up with an easier finger gymnastics to use this native feature.

3 comments

A solution that works for me in all application is remapping keyboard, there are no major keyboard shortcuts I use that use Alt so what I did is this

- remap Left Alt to Ctrl

- remap Windows/Meta btn to Alt

- I also set CapsLock as Esc

So all my shortcuts, in apps, DE and IDE are suiper comfortable for me though this could suck if you have to work on a different person computer.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but you might be interested in [0].

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/tab_search/

With the Vimium extension you can type "t" to search open tabs. (And you can follow links with "f".)