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by dmortin 2379 days ago
It's too bad the live demo uses Alt-Escape to activate which is a shortcut used by Windows, so I can't try it without installing it.

The author should use some other shortcut or put an Activate button on the page so Windows users can also try it.

2 comments

I added a note to tell users they can click on the keys themselves to run the commands.
The alt combinations (other than alt+esc to activate) don't work for me. I thought it was because they were captured by the browser or something, but it also does nothing when clicking on them.

And isn't alt+space a global combo in most major OSes? (Window operations in Windows and most Linux distros, and some system dialog in macOS if I'm not mistaken, though that might have been cmd+space.) I use it frequently (mostly to minimize windows but also for other things), and while most people may not do that, I think this extension targets exactly the audience that would. Seems like an odd choice.

Clicking the "Alt + Escape" text seems to do the trick. Firefox Nightly on Windows.
True, thanks. It was not obvious for me from the styling that I should click that.