Change keystroke for switching tabs?

[nick@…]

Hello!

What a wonderful add-on, so light and clean!

One small addition to make it perfect: I'd love to be able to change the keystroke used for switching tabs, as the default ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab are clumsy and I use other apps (less customizable than Firefox) with different keystrokes for tab switching. The cognitive dissonance is killing me ...

There used to be an add-on called "SwiftTabs" that did this, but it seems to no longer be maintained and one must jump through hoops to get it to work in FF3 at all.

I don't know why none of the many other (often overweight-with-features-I'll-never-use) tab add-ons don't provide this. Perhaps it is difficult to implement correctly -- but somehow, SwiftTabs managed to.

Many, many thanks for making us all a gift of your programming skill. All the best!

[t-bone]

Replying to nick@mit.edu:

... I use other apps (less customizable than Firefox) with different keystrokes for tab switching. The cognitive dissonance is killing me ... I don't know why none of the many other tab add-ons don't provide this.

Because every windows program uses ctrl tab to switch documents. Except this weird one you run, it seems.

I'll look into this but at a very very low priority.

[t-bone]

I've investigated it, and as best I can see, Firefox doesn't actually handle the ctrl-tab action. I can't find any way to override it at least. And I don't want to for my own purposes, anyway. Those sorts of features only get done when they're very easy (and thus easy to maintain down the line).